Hot Money

From the New York Times bestselling Grand Master of Crime Fiction comes a high-stakes mystery.

Fabulously wealthy gold trader Malcolm Pembroke has in his possession something the whole world wants—and anyone could kill for. In fact, even Malcolm's closest kin are moving in a little too close. As Malcolm's family becomes increasingly entangled in his dangerous world, tensions rise to a fever pitch. Secrets are uncovered, loyalties are tested, and greed threatens to tear everything apart.Dick Francis was born in South Wales in 1920. He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster. He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books. A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.