Nikki Amdur
This mesmerizing collection of short stories shows the literary jockey at the top of his game. . . . Whether it's an elegy for a sportswriter on the skids or the ballad of a Welsh groom and her social-climbing daughter, the stories linger long after you turn the page.
— Entertainment Weekly
San Francisco Chronicle
You can always depend on Dick Francis for a rousing good story.
Phoebe-Lou Adams
The thefts and scams are. . .admirable; a couple are . . .enticingly plausible. . . —The Atlantic Monthly
San Diego Union-Tribune
Dick Francis remains one of the most inventive and entertaining storytellers of our time, that rare performer who can both satisfy his audience and leave them hungry for more. Francis never fails to boot home a winner.
People Magazine
[Francis] once again saddles up a winner in this fast-paced collection of stories set in the racing world.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dick Francis has the knack. Which, clearly, is never going to desert him. It's the seemingly simple, most-writers-would-kill-for knack.
Union-Tribune San Diego
Dick Francis remains one of the most inventive and entertaining storytellers of our time, that rare performer who can both satisfy his audience and leave them hungry for more. Francis never fails to boot home a winner.
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Dick Francis has the knack. Which, clearly, is never going to desert him. It's the seemingly simple, most-writers-would-kill-for knack.
Phoebe-Lou Adams
The thefts and scams are. . .admirable; a couple are . . .enticingly plausible. . . -- The Atlantic Monthly
Kirkus Reviews
In lieu of his annual novel (10 Lb. Penalty), horseracing's gift to the mystery offers his fans his first collection of shorts, including five colts appearing in their first event and eight fillies who've been around the track once or twice. Most of the new stories are horsey parables of revenge. A small-town newspaper editor plots against the restaurant that humiliated his guests; a mild expatriate Brit patiently pursues legal remedies against the lawyer who swindled him out of the bail money he put up for an acquaintance; a couple of means gets even with the social-climbing daughter who neglected her mother, their faithful groom; a timely accident puts paid to the plans of a hit man and the jockey who hired him. The last story, 'Haig's Death,' about the effects of a race judge's fatal heart attack on the owners of the entrants, is the most original.
From the Publisher
"[Field of Thirteen] starts with a gallop and remains strong throughout." -USA Today
"Mesmerizing...shows the literary jockey at the top of his game." -Entertainment Weekly
