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"This is such an excellent read that I read it in 2 days. This is about a line of murders that keep occurring between jockeys. In between all this, however, the main character gets kidnapped and brutally beaten. The way they they unravel this is amazing and this is a must read." -- B. H. Howe, Amazon reviewer
Hunted (Eddie Malloy Series) by Richard Pitman and Joe McNallyHunted was first published by Hodder & Stoughton. Here is a flavour of the press reviews from the print edition:
"It's a neat plot, very well developed - and the climax is as good as anything Dick Francis has come up with." -- Racing Post
"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
Eddie Malloy, trying to get his career back on track, finds himself in the gunsights of a cunning killer who is maiming and murdering racing personalities with a zeal and purpose which terrifies the racing world and mystifies the police.
Eddie is convinced the killer has a definitive hit list for these ritual slayings and when he discovers he is high on that list, Eddie knows he has to become the hunter not the hunted.
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Written by ex-top jockey and BBC commentator Richard Pitman and racing journalist Joe McNally, Warned Off is the first in the series of six mystery crime thrillers by the duo.
Hunted is the second of the Eddie Malloy series. Eddie features in five of Richard and Joe's novels. Hunted has been rewritten and moves along at an even faster pace now.
We hope you enjoy Hunted which also contains an excerpt from book one in the Eddie Malloy series, Warned Off.
- Richard and Joe
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We're based in the UK and all seven of our novels are set there, in the world of horseracing. But we very much hope that readers in the Unites States and other countries will sample our books, all traditionally published in the 1990s with one, Hunted, also featuring in The Reader's Digest condensed books series alongside the famous John Grisham!
Richard rode 470 winners in the last 8 years of a 15 year career as a steeplechase jockey having been totally obscure for the first 7 seasons. He broke most bones in his body and has continued to do so from falls since retiring in 1976 (including losing an eye).
Richard was involved in the most dramatic finish to the Grand National since the 1956 race when Devon Loch sprawled on the run-in a hundred yards from the winning post. In 1973, Richard, riding the giant black Australian 'chaser Crisp, carrying the huge burden of 12 stones, led from the Canal Turn fence on the first circuit, going 25 lengths clear at one point, before being caught in the shadow of the post by the most famous Grand National horse in history, Red Rum, to whom Crisp was conceding 23lbs.
We will be dedicating a special page on our website, pitmacbooks.com to the '73 National and Richard will give his first hand account of the race and how he felt as he heard Red Rum coming.
Richard retired to join the BBC racing team as a pundit. During the past 30 odd years he has also presented horseracing on Sky TV on a weekly basis, written for national newspapers, bred thoroughbreds and run a successful pre-training stable for top licensed trainers. In fact he has done everything with racehorses except eat one and, who knows, might have done so unwittingly when abroad.
A popular after dinner speaker, Richard can be seen and heard regularly on P & O cruise ships. After becoming an altruistic kidney donor in Feb. 2012 he recovered in time to ride at Aintree on Grand National day in mid April in a charity race won by 13 times Irish champion jockey Mick Kinane. Besides writing with his former workmate Joe McNally, Richard has written six non-fiction books including the racing biography of the Queen Mother.
Joe McNally first took an interest in racing when he was just 12. His early hero was one Richard Pitman aged 22. Joe followed Richard's career, even keeping a scrapbook, as Richard and trainer Fred Winter dominated the 1970s with horses like Pendil, Crisp, Lanzarote, Killiney and many more stars.
Joe and Richard first met in the early 1990s when both worked for racing broadcaster Satellite Information Services. Richard had already been writing newspaper columns and non-fiction books, Joe had some plot ideas Richard liked and the fiction-writing partnership grew from there.
Joe went on to become marketing manager at Aintree for nearly five years with two other notorious Grand Nationals coming in his time - the void race in 1993 and the bomb scare in 1997. Joe moved on from there to become commercial director on the board of Tote Bookmakers. While at the Tote he created the famous scoop6 bet though now wishes he'd left the moment he thought it up then sold it to them for a percentage of turnover!
Joe was born in August 1953 in a small Scottish village dominated by the local coal and steel industry. Second oldest in a family of fifteen, Joe abandoned school at the age of 14 to try and find a job working with racehorses.
Joe's weight meant a career as a jockey was never going to be a realistic hope and aged 18, he took a job in the betting industry. Twenty two years after watching Red Rum on TV beating the Richard Pitman-ridden Crisp to win the first of his three Grand Nationals, Joe stood by the graveside, just one of four people present at the burial of Red Rum. Joe was marketing manager for the Grand National by then and he looks back on his years at Aintree with fondness.
Richard lives near The Valley of The Racehorse - Lambourn and is now retired. Joe is semi-retired and living in Scotland, travelling south from time to time to figure out with Richard what mystery can next be thrown at readers.
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