Playing Dead

Just a few days into Frank Samson's latest locum, Catamaran - a priceless stallion - escapes from his stable and, finding himself free, gallops headlong across country until he falls into an old quarry, injuring himself so badly that Frank has no alternative but to euthanase him. 


At least that's the way it looks. But why then, a week or so later, do unknown parties begin to suddenly show a sinister interest in Frank when it becomes known that, on a previous visit to the stables that housed the great animal, he had taken a few souvenir photographs of the world-beating stud horse? His locum takes an even more sinister turn when he is lured by a bogus emergency night call into a deadly trap.


After an ingenious and daring escape, Frank, with the assistance of Claire OíSullivan - a beautiful investigative reporter - begins to piece together a few little inconsistencies, each harmless on its own, until he finally works out why he has become a target.


In a deadly cat and mouse game, during which Claire is taken hostage, he eventually manages to thwart the devious plot of some members of the international syndicate that actually owns Catamaran, and Dr Frank Samson, the man they had chosen to be their dupe and cats-paw, eventually becomes their nemesis.