The Daily Mail (London, England), August 31st, 2007
Byline: Geoffrey Wansell
Dead Heat by Dick Francis and Felix Francis (Michael Joseph, [pounds sterling]18.99)
WHAT'S THE PLOT?
WUNDERKIND chef Max Moreton, proprietor of the acclaimed Hay Net restaurant inNewmarket, is taken ill after he and 24 guests at a dinner he has prepared onthe eve of the 2000 Guineas at the nearby racecourse get food poisoning.
But that's nothing to the drama that engulfs Moreton the next day when aterrorist bomb explodes in the private box where he has been cooking lunch incelebration of the race, murdering 19 people and almost killing him, too.
Police believe ...
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