Книга: Citizen (Гражданин) (Charlie Brooks); HarperCollins UK, 2009

From former top trainer Charlie Brooks comes a thriller of horseracing, dirty dealing, big business and a test of loyalty under extreme pressure...

General Shalakov, brutal Russian oligarch, has business interests across many continents. Yet he craves prestige in the West. His ambition is to corner the thoroughbred stallion market in Europe. Massively rich, he is prepared to bribe, torture and murder to achieve his goal.

Tipper O'Reilly, apprentice jockey, learns the hard way that survival is as much about what happens off the track as in the saddle. And he's about to be drawn into a whole different world.

Coerced into working at Shalakov's state-of-the-art training complex miles from Moscow, Tipper has no concept of what's really going on behind the efficient facade. There'll be only one survivor of the final race.