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No-one really notices a certain horse race might have been fixed until Matt O'Connor, a Chicago-based columnist for a national racing newspaper, gets a call from Moe Kellman, a horse-owning acquaintance. Kellman's question for Matt: Was the loss of life of 92-year-old Bernard Glockner, Chicago's oldest lively bookie, suicide or murder? Glockner was Kellman's late uncle, and Kellman, a man acquainted with the Chicago mob, wishes Matt to check on it out. Matt quickly comes to assume that the fate of the bookmaker is linked with a series of races whose results have been manipulated. His pursuit is aided by equine trainer Maggie Collins and Dave Zimmer, a specialist gambler known as the Fount for his reputation as an encyclopedic way to obtain information. Eventually, going as significantly afield as Las Vegas, they target their places on a brilliant sociopath. But why would this psycho have plotted a race-fixing plan? Spiced with exciting terms from the world of equine race, Riders Down offers dazzling insights into that world and the possibilities of its problem. John McEvoy, ex - journalist for the Daily Auto racing Form, is the writer of several nonfiction literature on Thoroughbred equine racing and unknown novels occur the world of equine racing.
