Crossfire

The life Captain Thomas Forsyth has always known ends when he is badly wounded by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan. Unable to return to his regiment, Tom travels to his childhood home in Lambourn, where his difficult mother is a famous racehorse trainer. Tom has never been able to connect with his mother, but now she needs him more than ever. When his mother's top horse finishes last in a race he should have won, Tom uncovers a threat to the training business that is much more dangerous than anyone could imagine. Soon, Tom finds himself in the midst of a very different kind of war. Crossfire is another compulsively readable novel of horses and intrigue from Dick and Felix Francis.