Bonecrack

Bonecrack by Francis, Dick (Richard Stanley "dick" Francis ). hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780060113193.

A BBC radio full-cast dramatization of Dick Francis thriller novel, starring Frances Matthews, Caroline Blakiston, and Mark Colleano. The unexpected arrival of a new apprentice jockey at his fathers racing stables heralds the beginning of a series of dark happenings for Neil Griffon. First his father suffers a grisly accident, and then Neil is brutally assaulted and abducted. The price for his freedom will mean the betrayal and deception of those who trust Griffon most. But he has no a no-compromise crime czar has made an ultimatum--that his own eighteen-year-old son be hired by Griffons stables to ride the superstar horse, Archangel, in the Derby. And the young man must be trained to win. Or else....