Doped: The Real Life Story of the 1960S Racehorse Doping Gang [Audiobook] download free by Jamie Reid
- Listen audiobook: Doped: The Real Life Story of the 1960S Racehorse Doping Gang
- Author: Jamie Reid
- Release date: 2013/12/7
- Publisher: RACEFORM LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9781909471047
- Rating: 8.55 of 10
- Votes: 356
- Review by: Dulce Novak
- Review rating: 9.51 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/15
- Duration: 3H25M40S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-03
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, MPEG4, WAV, WMA, FLAC, ATRAC (compression DEB, ZIP, JAR, ARJ, ALZ, RAR, IMG)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 26 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M58S (5.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Doped is the gripping true-story racing thriller set in Britain in the 1950s and early 1960s. Combining a potent mix of horse racing, drugs, sex, class, crime, gambling and the monarchy, it tells the true story of one of the biggest doping scandals in British racing history. In March 1962 an audacious attempt to nobble one of the royal horses alerted police to a well organised band of racecourse criminals, backed by murderous London gangsters. The subsequent Flying Squad pursuit of the gang brought the quaintly deferential world of racing into sharp conflict with the harsher realities of the 'You've Never Had It So Good' era. This also coincided with the birth of the annual Dick Francis novel. The cast of characters is headed by William Roper, a debonair ex RAF Sergeant turned oddsmaker. His team included an ex jockey, numerous underpaid stable lads, an upper class gambling addict and a violent professional gangster who went on to face charges with the Kray twins in 1969. But the most fascinating member of Roper's firm was a beautiful and selfpossessed young Swiss woman called Micheline Lugeon who became the bookmaker's lover.
- Other categories, genre or collection: True Crime Books, Sports Books, True Crime Biographies, Horse Racing
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 25.44 USD
- Dimensions: 153x234x28mm
- Weight: 576g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: Newbury, United Kingdom
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