" This book explains the bookie business at the race tracks in England, and how the odds are manipulated and side bets are made so that bookies don't suffer great losses. It was not one of the better of the Dick and Felix Francis books, but I enjoyed it all the same. The central character, Ned Talbot, meets a man at Royal Ascot races who claims to be his father. Ned thought his father had been dead since he was a toddler, so had a hard time believing this, but just as he was being convinced, the man is murdered in the racetrack car park. Ned investigates his father's business, discovers his dad was a crooked bookie and involved in a scheme to change the identity of race horses with sensing chips injected under the horses' skin. He's also dealing with his wife, Sophie, who is mentally ill. "
— Lorraine, 1/27/2014