Even Money Audiobook (Free)

On the first day of Royal Ascot, the crowd rejoices in a string of winning favourites. Ned Talbot has worked all his existence like a bookmaker – taking over the family business from his grandfather – therefore he knows never to expect any sympathy through the punters because they count number their earnings, and he counts his losses. He’s seen the ups and downs before – but, as the best gambling conglomerates muscle tissue in on little worries like his, Ned wonders if it’s worthwhile any more.

Whenever a grey-haired man steps forward in the crowd claiming to be his father, Ned’s life can be thrown into far deeper turmoil. He’d been told since he was a baby that his parents got died in a car crash.

Barely an hour later his newly found father is usually stabbed by an unidentified assailant in the Ascot carpark. Bloodstream oozing from his stomach, he warns Ned: ‘Be very careful’. But of whom? Of what? Ned finds himself within a race to solve his father’s riddles, a competition where coming second may cost him a lot more than also money, it might cost him his existence.