Risk - Softcover

Francis, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0425211037 ISBN 13: 9780425211038

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2006

Synopsis

When he wakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound, Roland Britten—accountant and champion steeplechase jockey—knows he’s entered a nightmare of someone else’s making. Wracking his brain to figure out who’s out to get him and why, he comes up empty, but somehow manages a death-defying escape. It isn’t long, though, before he’s recaptured. Now, with his life at stake, he must take every risk to outsmart his well-disguised enemy and save himself...

About this title

From the Publisher:

Roland Britten, an accountant by profession but an amateur jockey by preference, awakens one morning to discover that he cannot move, he cannot see, and he can hear nothing but the noise of a nearby engine. "A particularly ingenious Francis novel of suspense."--Publishers Weekly

From the Inside Flap:

"Few match Francis for dangerous flights of fancy and pure, inventive menace."
BOSTON HERALD
Roland Britten, accountant and champion steeplechase jockey, wakes in darkness with his hands tied. He has no idea where he is or what is happening, and still he manages an escape -- until he is recaptured, and the deadly cat and mouse game proceeds....

About this edition

• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0425211037
• ISBN 13: 9780425211038
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 272