Dangerous Outsider

Jay Jessop Racing Thriller #3

by Graeme Roe

A young Irish trainer moves to England to take on a successful rival. Strange accidents occur. In an international plot that ranges from the Cotswolds to Dublin, London to Switzerland, New Zealand to Singapore, the violence escalates with an attempt on the trainer's life.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Educated at Hampton Grammar School and the University of Nottingham, Graeme Roe had a marketing career working for major international companies.

He then founded and built an extremely successful advertising agency. At the age of forty he decided to take up riding and under David Nicholson's guidance gained an amateur National Hunt licence. For ten years he rode both on the flat and over hurdles and fences. His biggest success was winning the Ayr Yeomanry Cup on Dom Perignon.

He then took out a Jockey Club permit quickly followed by a full licence. Amongst his many winners were All Bright, Dom Perignon, Kitty Wren, We're in the Money, Le Grand Maitre, Fairly Sharp and Bad Beatrich.

Graeme now runs a communications firm and successfully self-published Touch of Vengeance and Odds on Death.