# Crossfire

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- Book: [Crossfire](https://www.bookquiver.com/dick-francis/crossfire) ([Crossfire.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/dick-francis/crossfire.md))
- Authors: [Dick Francis](https://www.bookquiver.com/dick-francis), [Felix Francis](https://www.bookquiver.com/felix-francis)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-01-4195-943-6
- Published: 2010-09-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

Captain Thomas Forsyth's tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he's badly wounded by an IED - Improvised Explosive Device, a roadside bomb. Tom's world is torn apart by the injury - the Army is his life. Six months of recuperation leave is a daunting prospect - but not as bleak as the probability of never rejoining his regiment. Tom returns to Lambourn, to his childhood home, where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the 'First Lady' of racing. Never having seen eye to eye with his parents, Tom doesn't expect a hero's welcome - but even he's not prepared for the reception that awaits him. When his mother's prize horse finishes a disappointing last place in a race he should have won, Tom discovers that the training business is on the edge, and facing a threat far more dangerous than a run of bad form. Tom finds himself on a very different, but just as deadly, battlefield where his military skills are tested... kill or be killed?