V. S. Anderson

Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Saving a champion show jumper from a burning horse trainer gives young rider-trainer Robb Slaughter one job: finding out who tied that horse in that trailer and making them pay. For Robb, avenging that horse means atonement. Sure, he was just a kid when he left his mother screaming while her lover killed her, but that doesn't mean he ever quit hearing those screams. It's the horses who've saved him from the torrent of unanswered cries inside his head. Clearing the big jumps on horses he cares about has given him a hard-won mental peace. He has built a good life for himself as a professional show-jumping rider, on his way to Grand-Prix stardom . . . Until that fire. You were crazy to jump into that trailer to save that horse, everyone tells Robb. But for Robb saving the horse like he did is just the beginning. Let the police solve it, everyone says. But Robb knows no cop will ever deliver the right kind of justice. Only somebody brave enough and driven enough can hunt down the killers and exact true justice. Somebody with a visceral need to right wrongs and find peace from his own torment. Somebody like Robb. With the help of a sharp-witted female reporter, Robb unravels the plot that put that horse in that trailer. He's ready to do whatever he has to-until he learns that one of the people involved is a troubled young woman he has always dreamed his love could rescue. But what if saving her asks a lot more of him than saving the horse? Set against the daily background of a hunter-jumper show barn in rigorous international competition, Three Strides Out pits a young rider's life against fraud, money-laundering, blackmail, and murder. Like a Grand Prix class that asks horses to jump fences they can't see over, Robb's quest to bring killers to justice demands an ultimate commitment-and an ultimate sacrifice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: V. S. Anderson
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780997576849
• Artikelnr.: 75886786

Autorenporträt

Would you rather see my books than read about me? (The books are a lot more entertaining--at least I suspect so). To find them, you can scroll endlessly to the bottom of this verbiage, or you can check out the titles and ID numbers:

KIng of the Roses: A Horse Racing Mystery: "I used to think Dick Francis has no peer. . . . Now I am not so certain."--The Maryland Horse (547497)

Jockey Chris Englund has won five Kentucky Derbies, horse racing's jewel. But his uncompromising honesty has stalled his career. Out of the blue, he gets the leg up on the odds-on Derby favorite. But Derby week turns to ashes when he's offered half a million dollars to throw the race. But if he rides to win, he will destroy a great horse and lose the woman he loves.

Blood Lies: "A read winner, this one." --The Los Angeles Times (547498)

Young Ted Whysse comes home to his family's fabulous breeding farm to investigate his best friend's death. He wants no part of his inheritance, nor of the magnificent stallion Kite. What he wants, though his heart knows better, is his dying father's beautiful young wife. But when he learns she has a deadly secret, he must risk other lives to save herincluding his own.

NEW! Three Strides Out: A Horse Show Novel of Suspense (1313051)

Adrenaline's good for something, Robb Slaughter tells people when they ask where he found the courage to climb into a burning trailer to rescue a valuable horse. But it will take more than adrenaline for Robb to find out who put that horse there and whyand to make the monsters pay.

If you're a glutton for words, read on! (You've been warned.)

I was probably about ten years old when a cousin (or perhaps an adult in my extended family?) told me, "You're just a kid. You can't write a book!" I remember planting my fists on my hips (well, metaphorically, anyway), and answering, "I can too!"
And I did.
My books were wilder, crazier, than the Black Stallion books I devoured. I still have the first one, in pencil on lined notebook paper. It was about this wild black mare who would come storming down out of the north Georgia mountainsbelieve it or not, an exotic never-never-land to an Atlanta schoolgirlto steal tame horses right out of their stalls and carry them off to her secret hideout in a hidden cove.
In fact, the whole reason I wanted to write books was to capture my dreams of horses. So I wrote and wrote and wrote, drafting, revi...