Francis, Dick

En route from Tokyo to a holiday in England, British First Secretary Pater Darwin stops in Miami, where he is caught in a mugging that may have links to his childhood home in England.

Andrew Dougals is engaged to advise high-risk clients how best to avoid kidnapping and to negotiate with kidnappers when necessary. Dougals is involved in a kidnapping which leads him from Italy to the United States.

In an attempt to change his luck Henry Grey takes a job air transporting racehorses, but he learns there is more than horses in the cargo hold.

After bidding on and purchasing a horse for a wealthy American woman, ex-jockey Johah Dereham finds that his client is not the only person who desires the animal.

The murder of his cousin's wife involves an English painter in the pursuit of an Australian art forging gang.

A jockey with an interest in photography begins searching for information as to why a racetrack photographer was killed. Unwittingly he becomes the killer's next victim.

A surefire computerized betting system draws desperate men who will do anything to gain control of it.

Reclusive Alexander Kinloch is called from his home in the wilds of Scotland to the death bed of his stepfather in London, not realizing that he is being drawn into the very dangerous company of polite society.