Shattered

Title: Shattered
ISBN: 9780330483346
Author: francis-dick
Rating: ⭐ 3.93 (71 ratings, reviews)

When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall at Cheltenham, his friend Gerard Logan becomes embroiled in a perilous search for a stolen videotape.Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim. He has long been accustomed to the dangers inherent in working with molten glass, but now he is faced with a series of unexpected threats, first to his livelihood, then to his courage and finally, to his life.Believing the missing videotape to contain priceless information, and wrongly convinced that Logan knows where to find it, a vicious group of villains sets out to extract from him the information he does not have. Logan reckons that to survive he must find out the truth. The journey is a thorny one, and the final race to the tape throws more hurdles and more hazards in his way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined.'Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingedient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding tight to the very end' Sunday Telegraph