Lure of the Chase: A British Historical Fiction Saga

by Michael Sinclair-Smith

Overview

Glenn O'Brien, an Irish American, gets a call in his Boston office about a horse from an old steeple-chasing buddy in Ireland. In need of a break from creditors and the recession, he puts operations on hold and takes a flight to Shannon. He hunts the horse over the Clare countryside, gets involved in some hotly disputed wrangling for him and takes on a gutsy wager which ends in a match ride to hounds through the tough country of the Burren. After the hair-raising chase, he is indeed alone with hounds when they account for the fox, but he is hopelessly lost on the moors. Finding his way out becomes a desperate journey, that sets him on a quest to search back in history and find out who he really is. The fast action takes place in present-day Boston, Ireland, and England and switches to 19th-century England in the heydays of the great fox hunters Tom Assheton Smith and Squire George Osbaldeston.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781541022935
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	12/20/2016
Series:	The Chase Chronicles , #1
Pages:	450
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

MICHAEL SINCLAIR-SMITH was brought up in the Eng-lish countryside where he developed a passion for horses. He left England in 1965 and moved to Canada, where for a year, he was a huntsman to a pack of hounds in Ontario. From there he moved to Montreal and set up his own recruiting firm, became an amateur whipper-in and later field master. In the early 80s after taking up polo in Saratoga, he re-introduced polo to Montreal at his horse farm west of the city.
He has hunted throughout America, England and Scotland and for fifteen seasons he organized and led hunting groups on trips to Ireland. He played polo in Jamaica, The Dominican Republic, Argen-tina and the USA. He has five children and still lives on his horse farm in St. Polycarpe, Quebec, where he indulges his passion for writing historical novels about Canada, Britain, Ireland and The United States involving the thrills of polo, racing, shooting and fox hunting.