Longshot / Risk - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Dick Francis, Kenneth Branagh (Narrator), Michael York (Narrator) Longshot -- John Kendall knows how to survive. He's written six handbooks on the subject. Now he wants to become a novelist -- preferably without starving to death. But when cold and hunger set in, Kendall impulsively accepts an unlikely job. He is to research and write a biography of Tremayne Vickers, a famous racecourse tr... more »ainer. Staying at Vickers' home in rural Berkshire, Kendall soon learns to like his host and friends, learns to ride racehorses, learns about murderers... And how his own survival tips can become deadly traps...
Read by Kenneth Branagh. Abridged.
Risk -- When he wakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound, Roland Britten -- accountant and champion steeplechase jockey -- knows he’s entered a nightmare of someone else’s making. Wracking his brain to figure out who’s out to get him and why, he comes up empty, but somehow manages a death-defying escape. It isn’t long, though, before he’s recaptured. Now, with his life at stake, he must take every risk to outsmart his well-disguised enemy and save himself...
Read by Michael York. Abridged. Audio Cassettes. (approximately 6 hr.)« less