Sid Halley

It's amazing what bodily injury can do for a man. A fall from a racehorse left brilliant jockey Sid Halley dangerously depressed, with a wrecked hand and the need for a new career. It was a bullet wound that helped him find one. Although he'd been with a detective agency since his racing accident, it isn't until some two-bit hoodlum drills a slug into his side that he is sent out on a case of his own. That is where he meets Zanna Martin, a woman who just might make life worth living again. But it is an even-money bet that he will be killed before she has the chance.

Former prize-winning jockey Sid Halley must face some disturbing skeletons in his past and his most paralyzing fear in this mystery involving foul play at the race track, a professional con artist, and corruption within the security service.

By lopping off one of their feet, someone is maiming two-year-old colts, the cream of the future racing crop. When Sid Halley, jockey turned investigator, uncovers the fiend and implicates a pillar of the horse breeding community, the repercussions are horrible.

Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He’d been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game. He thought wrong. Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs Sid to investigate a series of dodgy races. Sid adamantly refuses, but the following day, Sir Richard is found dead under suspicious circumstances. And then a man with an Irish accent contacts Sid, telling him to deliver a whitewashed report about the suspected race-fixing ... or else. At first Sid ignores these warnings, knowing that once he submits to this criminal bully, he will forever be under his control. But as the intimidation tactics escalate- and Sid’s own family comes under threat- Sid realizes he must meet his enemy head-on ... or he might pay the ultimate price for his refusal.