Bonecrack (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Dick Francis
- First Published: 1971
- Type of Work: Social morality
- Time of Work: The late 1960’s
- Setting: Newmarket, England
- Principal Characters: Neil Griffon, Alessandro Rivera, Enso Rivera, Neville Griffon, Etty Craig
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, 1960’s, Family or family life, Parents and children, England or English people, Fathers, Blackmail, Kidnapping, Horses, Apprentices, Racing
- Locales: Newmarket, England
The Novel
While Neil Griffon, the protagonist of Bonecrack, is substituting for his father as the head of Rowley Lodge, a racing stable in Newmarket, England, he is kidnaped by Enso Rivera, an international fence based in Bastagnola, Switzerland. Rivera threatens to destroy the stable if Griffon does not take on his son as a jockey and allow him to ride Archangel (the stable’s prize thoroughbred) in the Derby.
Soon after Alessandro Rivera, the son, arrives at the stable, chauffeured in a Mercedes limousine by Carlo, one of Enso’s thugs who kidnaped Griffon, the major...
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