A new long-awaited novel by Dick Francis! A new investigation by private detective Sid Holly! He had long been accustomed to risking his own life, but now the maniac openly attempted to kill the person closest to Sid - his friend Marina. A former jockey himself, Sid knew the world of horse racing very well - the world of excitement, risk, sophisticated fraud and cruelty. Experience and intuition have never failed the detective, but will he be able to punish the killer this time? After all, the traces of the bloody crime led to the very top... For the first time in Russian!