DARK HORSE（ISBN=） 英文原版

　　In her latest thriller, “New York Times” bestselling author
Tami Hoag takes readers on a suspense-filled ride of shocks and
twists leading to an explosive finish. It is the story of an
ex-cop, a missing girl, and a killer locked in a race where there
can be only one winner–and the losers die trying. In a trailer in
a Florida swamp, time is running out for eighteen year-old Erin
Seabright. A pawn in a kidnapper’s terrifying game for a ransom no
one can pay, her last hope is a washed-up ex-cop who has already
lost it all-not once, but twice. The wealthy world of the Palm
Beach horse set seems a long way from a cop’s world in the
narcotics division. A lifetime ago, undercover sheriff’s detective
Elena Estes worked the mean streets and BackTop alleys, living by
her wits and playing the long odds until she took one risk too
many. Now Estes lives on the ragged edge of lost hope and
self-hatred, hiding from the past and believing she doesn’t deserve
to have a future. But the past is about to come back with a
vengeance, and the future is about to become a race between life
and death. A young woman is missing and her twelve year-old
stepsister comes to Estes for help. No one but serious, studious
Molly Seabright seems concerned about what’s happened to her
troubled older sister. But Molly is convinced Erin is in danger.
Estes has no P.I. license, no interest in a new career, and no
desire to break her self-imposed exile. But the more she learns
about the people Erin Seabright was involved with, the more her
long-dormant cop instincts come back to life. One trip to the show
grounds where Erin worked as a groom, and Estes is quickly pulled
to the dark side of a glamorous sport. Behind the glittering,
ultra-rich facade is an ultra-ruthless world of drugs, payoffs, and
dirty deals. A world of dissolute playboys and crooked
horse-dealers, of royalty and rabble, of rivals and enemies. An
obscenely wealthy world where anything can be had for a
price–including a life. And in that world stalks a killer who will
lead Estes down a dark, twisted trail of decadence and deceit,
mayhem and murder–from the gilded life of Palm Beach to the
darkest corners of the Florida swamps, to a final show-down that
could cost her everything. A race against time and evil. A race in
which Estes is the dark horse–and no one is betting on her to
win.

　　Tami Hoag’s novels have appeared regularly on the national
bestseller lists since the publication of her first book in 1988.
She lives in California.