Authors: Joe McNally,Richard Pitman
Warned Off (27 page)
We’re
very grateful for your custom and for the chance to sell almost direct to you
after years of trying to please publishers and retailers who always took the lion’s
share. A book without a reader is a dancer without a partner. Thank you for
bringing
Warned Off
alive.
Richard
and Joe
Warned Off
‘It’s
a racing certainty that Warned Off will offer a challenge to Dick Francis. It’s
packed with authentic dialogue and characters.’
Today
‘A
very professional racing thriller ... lots of rough stuff, plenty of racing
background and action all mixed up with a love interest combine to provide a
fast-moving story.’
Publishing News
‘The
plot is from the racing stockpot ... fast and violent.’
The Times
Hunted
‘It’s
a neat plot, very well developed ... and the climax is as good as anything
Francis has come up with.’
Racing Post
‘If
it’s fiction you’re after, the team of Richard Pitman and Joe McNally have
struck again with another racing-based thriller mystery.’
The Sporting
Life
‘There
is plenty of well-written racing action and weighing-room atmosphere in which
Richard Pitman’s expertise as a former top jockey shines through and the
tension, so important in a thriller, is kept going from start to finish.
Thoroughly recommended.’
Horse & Hound
Running Scared
‘Brings
the racing scene so vividly to life ... racy in both the equine and the
literary sense.’
Racing Post
We
published seven racing thrillers in the 1990s. We are now converting those to
e-books. If you bought any of the originals, we hope you enjoyed them. We’ve made
some changes to them for these editions which we believe improves them - we
hope you agree.
The
first five books feature Eddie Malloy. They can be read in any order but some
readers enjoy following in sequence, in which case it goes
Warned Off
, Hunted, *Running Scared, Blood Ties, *The
Third Degree
.
Joseph’s
Mansions
(which will be re-titled
For Your Sins
for e-publication) introduces
Frankie Houlihan and
Bet Your Life
features Eddie and Frankie.
By
mid July, all our books will be for sale online except *Running Scared and *The
Third Degree; we intend to do substantial rewrites on these and they will be
available later in 2012.
We
plan to write many more thrillers together; our eighth,
Death Ride
,
is well advanced. You can follow progress, and get in touch at pitmacbooks.com
or @pitmac on Twitter.
If
you enjoy this book, we’d be most grateful if you’d review it online. If you
didn’t enjoy it, we’d be even more grateful if you keep it quiet!
Best
wishes
Richard
and Joe
PS
After the final page of Warned Off, we’ve added an excerpt from book two in the
Eddie Malloy series, Hunted and one from book three, Blood Ties.
We
will send you an email on publication day of our future books if you register
on our website
pitmacbooks.com
and you
can follow us on twitter @pitmacbooks
We are most
grateful to Joanne Teare for her superb typing skills, to our illustrator
John Amy
and to our marketing guru
Claire Ryan of
The Raynfall Agency
who
designed our
website
For old time’s
sake, we’d also like to thank Nick Sayers, publishing director at Hodder UK - a
humble editor when he helped so much with this book back in 1993!
A mention too
for renowned literary agent Michael Sissons of Peters Fraser & Dunlop who
signed their first author in 1924; goodness knows what Michael saw in us way
back in 1992!