Charlie Brooks talks about his novel Citizen

From former top trainer Charlie Brooks comes a thriller of horseracing, dirty dealing, big business and a test of loyalty under extreme pressure...

General Shalakov, brutal Russian oligarch, has business interests across many continents. Yet he craves prestige in the West. His ambition is to corner the thoroughbred stallion market in Europe. Massively rich, he is prepared to bribe, torture and murder to achieve his goal.

Tipper O'Reilly, apprentice jockey, learns the hard way that survival is as much about what happens off the track as in the saddle. And he's about to be drawn into a whole different world.

Coerced into working at Shalakov's state-of-the-art training complex miles from Moscow, Tipper has no concept of what's really going on behind the efficient facade. There'll be only one survivor of the final race.

Charlie Brooks left Eton to become a stable lad for racing legend Fred Winter. After riding in the Grand National, and winning the Cheltenham Festival as an amateur jockey, he became the youngest racehorse trainer in England. He has broadcast for Radio Five and Bloomberg TV and hosted his own sports programme, 'The Charlie Brooks Show'. He is a columnist for the Daily Telegraph and lives on his farm in the Cotswolds.

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[jbrodie007]

So this is Charlie Brooks these days .A funny little fellow, very Dudley Moore. Just shows that if you have an Eton education you can be regarded as a 'Ladies Man' despite looking the way he does. Beats me how he was any threat to John Francome...must be he's hung like one of his horses...!