FORFEIT

FORFEIT by Francis, Dick. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780449212721.

"The best thriller writer going." ATLANTIC MONTHLY James Tyron, a racing reporter for a London scandal sheet, knew that fellow writer Bert Chekov was a drunk, but he always thought he was an honest one. But when Bert suddenly died in an "accidental" fall from a window, Tyrone suspeced the clues to his death might be found in some suspicious columns hed written touting cant lose horses--who myseriously failed to show up on race day. With his own professional and private lives in a chaotic jumble, Tyrone knew hed have find a way to prove that Chekov was murdered. Be he didnt know the terrifying risk he was unwittingly about to take....