Dick Francis: To the Hilt (UK 2014) From the Publisher: They ask one question - 'where is it?' - then leave him for dead... Baffled and hurt, Al visits his stepfather and learns millions of pounds are missing and a valuable racehorse is under threat. Already roughed up, Al decides he has nothing to lose getting to the bottom of this. Unfortunately, the thugs who beat him up and the person behind them will make sure that Al doesn't survive their next encounter Dick Francis: To the Hilt. Penguin Books, ISBN: 9781405916844 (September, 2014), 341 p., £7.99.
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Dick Francis: To the Hilt (USA 2004) From the Publisher: Dick Francis: To the Hilt. Berkley Books, ISBN: 042519681X (June, 2004), 341 p., $6.99.
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Dick Francis: To the Hilt (UK 1997) From the Publisher: Millions of pounds are missing from his stepfather's business. A valuable racehorse is under threat. Then comes the first ugly death and the end of all Alexander's doubts. For the honour of the Kinlochs he will face the strangers... up to the hilt... The new international bestseller from Dick Francis is a brilliantly executed tale of top racing, big money and crime. Dick Francis: To the Hilt. Macmillan, ISBN: 0330352253 (November, 1997), 393 p., £15.99.
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Dick Francis: To the Hilt (USA 1997) From the Publisher: Dick Francis: To the Hilt. Jove Books, ISBN: 0515121487 (October, 1997), 341 p., $6.99.
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Dick Francis: To the Hilt (UK 1996) From the Publisher: One day, however, Alexander's peace is violently shattered when he returns home to find a group of strangers waiting for him. After a scuffle, he is left for dead with only the wind and the words "Where is it?' ringing in his ears. And the days that follow contain more danger than he could ever have imagined. Once again Dick Francis proves that for sheer narrative pace and ingenuity of plot he is second to none. Dick Francis: To the Hilt. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 071813754X (October, 1996), 281 p., £15.99.
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Dick Francis: To the Hilt (USA 1996) From the Publisher: Alexander Kinloch is a true eccentric. The twenty-nine-year-old son of the (dead) fourth son of an earl, he lives in a broken-down house on a weatherbeaten Scottish mountainside, far from the affairs of the world and the noble relations who think him weird. The isolated solitude of a painter is the life he's chosen, and he emerges from his remote and quietly profitable artistic life only every two weeks, to secure provisions and pick up his mail. Then one day Alexander receives a postcard from his mother, summoning him to London to the bedside of his dying stepfather. The news takes Alexander by surprise, but ensuing events unleash even greater shocks as threats and physical danger follow him to his very doorstep. The realization that his stepfather is un-intentionally about to take Alexander with him to his grave is the shock of reality that draws the solitary painter out of the untamed wilderness and into the fearful -- and much more dangerous -- company of polite society. In To the Hilt, Dick Francis executes the portrait of a hero caught by surprise, an unassuming man thrust into territory where the landscape is painted with blood. And there Alexander faces a dilemma: Just how far should one go in the defense of honor -- to the hilt? Dick Francis: To the Hilt. Putnam's, ISBN: 0399141855 (October, 1996), 322 p., $24.95.
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