Dead Weight

There’s no hiding place for a jump jockey when his courage deserts him. After a crashing fall, champion rider Phil Nicholas returns to racing, but though his body has healed his mind has not. Flashbacks of his accident invade his dreams, rob him of his sleep and freeze him in the saddle. The tough guy of jump racing has lost his bottle.

But when one of Phil’s colleagues is viciously attacked after losing a race he should have won, the jockey can’t sit on the sidelines any longer. If he wants to save the sport – and the woman he loves – it’s time for Phil to recover his nerve…