Longshot is about community, survival, writing, and, naturally, race horses. Our narrator, John Kendall, has written six survival guides for adventurers vacationing in the jungle, wilderness, ice or desert. Now he's written his first novel and luckily it has been accepted for publication. Until then, however, he's broke and in need of temporary housing. On an impulse he takes a job writing a biography of a racehorse trainer, Tremayne Vickers. So he heads off for rural England to live at the Vickers' home for a month. From nearly the moment he is picked up at the bus station he puts his survival skills to good use. And as the days pass, he does the same with his natural ability for insight and finds himself in the middle of a murder mystery. He soon learns that rural England is just as much a challenge for his survival skills as any of the harshest environments he's written about.

First Edition published in US-1990
Book in very good condition with dust jacket