| Synopsis: |
Easy-going young Benedict Juliard has no stronger ambition than to ride in the steeple-chases as an amateur jockey. His father George, driven towards politics, asks his only son to enter a pact that neither of them will do anything to destroy the father's growing reputation and career. Benedict agrees - but five years later finds himself targeted in a vicious attack mounted by his father's violent political enemies. Through the son, the father is to be discredited and destroyed, exactly as George feared. As George makes his ambitious drive towards the Prime Ministership and occupancy of 10 Downing Street, Ben is plunged into a frightening morass of lies and treachery. In practice, a 10-lb penalty is the maximum extra weight a winning thoroughbred is normally set to carry in a horse race. A 10-lb penalty can be a killer... |