About the book: 1991 / Dick Francis. NERVE Not all is well in the horse racing kingdom. The great jockey Art Matthews shot himself right at the racetrack. His young colleague Rob Finn starts an independent investigation... Laszlo Durko. UNDER THE SHADOW OF DEATH Yovap Kish's profession for a long time was hunting people. He was also hunted. But for several years now, only him has been hunted. Kish feels that he is getting old. But without a sense of danger, life is not life for him. Felix Rosiner. PURPLE SMOKE It seemed to Joshka Yankelevičius that the events of those four years that had passed after the terrible war had disappeared from his life forever. But soon it’s been a year since these letters began to arrive - from Chicago, Cleveland, Jerusalem, Philadelphia... And again, out of oblivion, a weak fire emerges through the fog and purple smoke above the veil of fog... But then the fire becomes brighter - and from the depths of memory four emerge crazy years between death and life, between love and hate…