In Italy, Alessia Cenci, a famous jockey is kidnapped. It is Andrew Douglas's job to get her back from the kidnappers - alive! Next a small child, Domonic Nerrity, is kidnapped in England. Then Morgan Freemantle is kidnapped in the United States. All three kidnappings are in the horse-racing world. Is the same man behind them? Andrew Douglas looks for the man and this leads him into danger.
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Part 1: Italy
Chapter 1 A kidnapping Goes Wrong
Chapter 2 A Worried Father
Chapter 3 Two Thousand Million
Chapter 4 Drugged but Unharmed
Chapter 5 'What Can You Remember?'
Part 2: England
Chapter 6 Getting her Confidence Back
Chapter 7 Music by Verdi
Chapter 8 The Vistaclara
Chapter 9 The Second Kidnapping
Chapter 10 How it Happened
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