Even Money

Royal Ascot's first day, and bookmaker Ned Talbot watches helplessly as a string of favourites come in. With the punters totting up their winnings, he counts his losses. When a grey-haired man steps out of the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned's life is thrown into turmoil. He'd been told since he was a baby that his parents had died in a car crash.
Barely an hour later, Ned's newly found father is dying in Ascot's car park. Stabbed by an unknown assailant, he warns Ned to 'be very careful'. But of whom? Of what?
In trying to discover the truth behind his father's disappearance and sudden reappearance, Ned puts himself and all that he loves in terrible danger. For his father had a very good reason for disappearing...