"Kit Fielding is a champion National Hunt jockey who is tough, resilient, intutive and resourceful ; and these qualities are essential if he is to survive the mine field with which fate has surrounded him. In his personal life he must fight to win tbe girl that he loves; in his professional life he has to endure the murderous animosity of an influential member of racing's ruling body, and to cap it all he becomes embroiled in a fight against a campaign of blackmail and terror"--Container.