Dick Francis: Rat Race (UK 2008)

From the Publisher:
Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He'd done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England's race courses he might be forgiven for expecting the quiet life. But then his plane explodes in a massive fireball. He could have been in it. Some quiet life.

Instead he's landed in the middle of a nightmare world where there is big money at stake. Very big money.

From then on he finds himself hurtling down a tortuous trail where people are not all they appear, and all around him is sudden bloody death...

Dick Francis: Rat Race. Pan, ISBN: 9780330029667 (June, 2008), 288 p., £6.99.

Dick Francis: Rat Race (USA 2006)

From the Publisher:
Hired to fly four racing buffs to the track, pilot Matt Shore expects it will be the kind of job he likes: quick and easy. Until, that is, he's forced to make an emergency landing just minutes before the plane explodes. Luckily, no one is hurt, but it isn't long before Matt realizes that he's caught up in the rat race of violent criminals who are dead-set on putting anyone who stands in their way on the wrong side of the odds...

Dick Francis: Rat Race. Berkley Books, ISBN: 9780425210765 (July, 2006), 304 p., $7.99.

Dick Francis: Rat Race (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
Matt Shore is a substitute pilot assigned to fly four racing buffs to the track. They're nervous, but Matt's not. That is, until he manages an emergency landing minutes before the plane explodes. Matt doesn't think anything else can possibly go wrong. Then he finds himself caught up in a rat race of danger that puts him on the wrong side of the odds...

Dick Francis: Rat Race. Fawcett Books, ISBN: 0449221121 (April, 1993), $6.99.