Stalking Horse - Hardcover

Shoemaker, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0449905950 ISBN 13: 9780449905951

Publisher: Ballantine Books, 1994

Synopsis

Straight from the Winner's Circle, the greatest jockey of all time draws on his vast experience on and off the track to spin one of the most suspenseful mysteries of the year....

Coley Killebrew was one of the best jockeys in the business -- until a race-fixing scandal got him barred from the track. Now the man responsible for blackening his name, racing steward Raymond Starbuck, offers Coley a chance to redeem his reputation. All Coley has to do is investigate some underworld characters who are muscling in on a track in New Orleans, resist the irresistible redhead he loved and lost. Francie Dorn, and reckon with Lea, Starbuck's leggy blonde daughter, who's its adept at seducing men as she is at blowing them away....
From the Paperback edition.

About this title

From the Publisher:

Ever since I was a little kid, I've loved the horses. Every once in a while my father would take me and my little brother to Belmont, and I remember what a treat it was to see someone like Bill Shoemaker leading his horse around the far post and down the stretch. When I was first hired as managing editor at Ballantine, it was such a thrill to be able to call my brother and tell him that I was going to work on some mysteries by Willie the Shoe. There's a lot more to horse racing than just climbing aboard a horse and racing around the track, and these books, STALKING HORSE, FIRE HORSE, and DARK HORSE, helped take me behind those scenes I thought I'd never know about. My brother went to the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness, and Belmont last year, and he said he brought DARK HORSE with him to all three events; DARK HORSE is set around the Triple Crown, and having the book with him made my brother feel as if he was right in the middle of all the action. I am very proud to a part of these terrific mysteries, told by an insider with special detail, dealing with a subject that has always been special to me and my family. Mark Rifkin, Managing Editorial

From the Back Cover:

"Sure to Invite Comparison to Dick Francis, Shoemaker proves even faster out of the gate with this debut thriller."

-- Publishers Weekly

"Look Out, Dick Francis....If you like fast-paced, fun and exciting novels with a plethora of shady characters, wild weather and loose women, this book is for you."

-- West Coast Review of Books

"Lots of Thrills and Spills...Here's hoping he gives Coley another mount soon."

About this edition

• Publisher: Ballantine Books
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0449905950
• ISBN 13: 9780449905951
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 311