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Veteran horseman Randall Drew travels to Mosow to help the royal family--but ends up caught in a world of jealousy, sabotage, and murder.

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In this thriller, Randall Drew is sent to Moscow to investigate threats against a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games. His brief is vague, the opposition invisible and the stakes appallingly high.

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  • “Light-headed from the upsurge of relief of being back where liberty still poked up a few persistent tendrils. Light-headed at the sight of people smiling in the street. At Christmas trees and bright lights and cornucopias of shops. One could spurn the affluent society and seek the simple life if one wanted to; the luxury lay in being able to choose.”

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I could think of three good reasons for not going to Moscow, one of which was twenty-six, blond, and upstairs unpacking her suitcase.

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  1. Dick Francis (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Michael Joseph
Country: Great Britain
Publication Date: 1987
ISBN: 0-449-21273-4
Page Count: 290

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