Dick Francis: Decider (UK 2010)

From the Publisher:
The multi-million pound Stratton Park racecourse in Wiltshire faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family. Lee Morris, architect, builder and father of six healthy sons, is reluctantly drawn into the turmoil.

As the Strattons fight for control in the boardroom, Lee finds himself forced to take sides. Until the day a massive explosion on the racecourse threatens his own and his children's lives.

Suddenly it isn't just the future of Stratton Park that's at stake...

Dick Francis: Decider. Pan, ISBN: 9780330335683 (June, 2010), 389 p., £7.99.

Dick Francis: Decider (USA 2008)

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A smash hit novel now in trade form - a rare and magical talent, who never writes the same story twice. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
In Decider, inheriting a small share in a successful racetrack means trouble for architect Lee Morris, especially when he finds himself in the middle of a family feud and the target of a ruthless killer?

Dick Francis: Decider. Putnam's, ISBN: 0425222705 (May, 2008), 327 p., $13.95.

Dick Francis: Decider (USA 2004)

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Architect Lee Morris has plans to restore Stratton Park racecourse to its former grandeur. But the combative Stratton heirs have violent plans of their own.

Dick Francis: Decider. Berkley Books, ISBN: 042519938X (December, 2004), 341 p., $6.99.

Dick Francis: Decider (USA 1995)

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New York Times bestselling author Dick Francis presents his thrilling new novel: the story of architect Lee Morris who inherits a partial ownership in the Stratton Park racecourse - and with it, a dangerous position among the warring upper-class family trying settle its fate. Morris would like to see the court restored to its former grandeur, but the various Stratton heirs have plans of their own. When an explosion rocks the grandstands, the disagreement turns violent -- and Morris finds himself in a race to save himself and his family from an unknown culprit...

Dick Francis: Decider. Jove Books, ISBN: 0515116173 (April, 1995), 341 p., $5.99.

Dick Francis: Decider (UK 1994)

From the Publisher:
The multi-million pond Stratton Park racecourse in Wiltshire faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family. Lee Morris, architect, builder and father of six healthy sons, is reluctantly drawn into the turmoil.

As the Strattons fight for control in the boardroom, Lee finds himself forced to take sides. Until the day a massive explosion on the racecourse threatens his own and his children's lives.

Suddenly it isn't just the future of Stratton Park that's at stake...

Dick Francis: Decider. Pan, ISBN: 0330335685 (December, 1994), 277 p., £4.99.

Dick Francis: Decider (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
Dick Francis has garnered international acclaim for fusing supercharged action and taut moral drama into best-selling novels of suspense. Set amid the world of high-stakes horseracing, which is his special turf, Decider ranks with this enormously popular author's finest work.

Free choice? According to architect, engineer, and jobbing builder Lee Morris, there's no such thing. Choice is preordained by personality, of that the young entrepreneur is sure. Then he becomes involved with Stratton Park racecourse, which faces ruin at the hands of the combative clan that wholly owns it. Connected with but not related to any of the family's warring factions, he nonetheless is drawn into the fray - reluctant, yet attracted by compulsions he does not fully comprehend.

But when the infighting turns violent, Lee finds he is a major player in a supremely dangerous game. With multimillions on the line and menace edging closer, he wrestles with the most critical decision of his life. One path leads to safety, the other to disaster, even death. Which is which? And does he really have a choice at all?

Utterly gripping and deeply thoughtful, Dick Francis's Decider is in every way a thoroughbred.

Dick Francis: Decider. Pan, ISBN: 0399138714 (October, 1993), 318 p., $22.95.

Dick Francis: Decider (UK 1993)

From the Publisher:
Free choice? There is no ruch thing, according to Lee Morris, architect, engineer, jobbing builder and entrepreneur. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality, he says.

Stratton Park racecourse, privately owned, faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling Family. Lee, loosely connected but not related, is slowly sucked into the turmoil, unwillingly on the surface but half-understanding the deep compulsions that influence his decisions. One road leads to safety, anocher to death. How do you know when you must choose? How do you know which is which? Lee's choices and their consequences bring deadly results, but the road out of the quicksand is there, if he can find it.

Horses and racing are farmiliar Dick Francis ingredients, but this time there are also children, houses, roots and decisions. Danger? Naturally. Stratton Park racecourse is worth multi-millions, and all the splinter-groups of the Stratton family are playing to win.

Decider is an inspired concoction of wonderfully conceived characters and a totally unpredictable plot that can only mean one thing - you are in the bands of the master.

Dick Francis: Decider. Michael Joseph, ISBN: 0718136020 (September, 1993), 277 p., £14.99.