Daniel Roke owns a successful stud farm in Australia, has three loving younger siblings, and is bored to tears. It takes an undercover investigation of a novel form of horse doping in England to teach him what he's made of and what he really wants in life. Villains in Francis's books are often soulless and creepy, but this pair are serious contenders for the worst in show. ( )

I like this story. The hero is interesting, both at the beginning and at the end. I think Francis was setting him up for a series, but it hasn't happened as far as I know (he does have a few books that link - the three (four?) Halleys for one, Bolt and Break In for another) ( )

Riveting story about undercover attempt to discover horse-fixing plot. This one was hard to put down. ( )

This is the one about the guy from Australia who goes undercover as a seedy groom to find the bad guys. He find that they are torturing horses to condition them to run frantically when they hear a dog whistle (that humans can't hear.)