Dick Francis COMEBACK First Edition Signed

First edition first print hardback of COMEBACK by Dick Francis and published by Michael Joseph in 1991. Signed to a previous owner by Francis on the half title page.

The book is in very good condition (black cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine) with no significant wear apart from light tanning around the page edges. The book is in a very good unclipped dust jacket which has light rubbing to the edges and corners. Internally the pages are otherwise clean and tight and there are no tears or other inscriptions.

Peter Darwin, a young First Secretary in the Foreign Office, returns from Tokyo for some quiet leave before taking up a new post. On the way he stops briefly in Miami, and there becomes entangled in a fracas which involves his going back not just to England but to Gloucestershire, scene of the long-buried memories of his childhood.

Walking unexpectedly into a veterinary surgeon's desperate troubles there, he begins to recall events from the past and comes to realise that if he stays around he can perhaps save a good many people from destruction.
Trained to penetrate the truths behind fa?ades, he has to use all his diplomatic skills to unravel not political shenanigans but the cruel fates which befall racehorses. The trick, as he progressively discovers, is not to suffer the same deaths.

276 pages

ISBN: 0718134680

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