To take down elite racehorses, criminals bring carriers of a disease-causing virus into England. The owner of a horse-transport company, former jockey Freddie Croft, learns that his vans have been secretly used to deliver animals infected with ticks. Freddie wants nothing to do with the criminal world, but it’s not in his nature to forgive someone who is trying to use him “in the dark.” So what will prove stronger: brilliant intellect and subtle intuition—or blind hatred of other people’s success, other people’s prosperity, other people’s good fortune?..