Odds Against

"Odds Against" is an action-packed thriller from one of the most successful jockeys of the post-war era and the author of over forty bestsellers, Dick Francis - a British classic who, like no other, continues to captivate readers' attention with spectacular panoramas of horse racing and dangerous vicissitudes of the sports backstage.

Sid Halley was once a star jockey. Now he is a private detective with a prosthesis instead of a crippled arm. He takes on three complicated cases that seem to be completely unrelated. Unexpected high-profile failures of the most successful horsemen. A conman who framed Halley's ex-wife and left her one step away from a prison sentence. A jockey club that offers to deal with the machinations of influential and no less ruthless syndicates. All these cases are deadly dangerous - but Sid returns to his element...

The novel won the Golden Dagger Award (1979) and the Edgar Allan Poe Award (1981) as the best novel of the year.