Up-and-coming jockey Nick Storr is set for the ride of his life. He's to pilot Ibn Saud, the pride of his father's stable, in the Cheltenham Gold Cup, the steeplechase event of the year. Arriving at the racecourse on the morning of the race, Nick is stunned to learn that his father has fired him. When the jockey who replaces him loses the race - a race Nick is certain Ibn Saud could easily have won - Nick is forced to confront the possibility that his father has intentionally thrown the contest. So begins Nick's journey into the past, as he attempts to discover the cause of his father's perfidy and to resurrect his own riding career. What he finds is a world of organized crime, fixed races, crooked jockeys, and illegal gambling lying just beneath the surface of the prosperous, seemingly upright world in which he was raised. Pursuing his father's secret involvement in this netherworld, Nick learns just how seductive it can be - even as he discovers that fraud and perhaps even murder underpin his family's fortune. The Devil to Pay is a mystery rich in tension, racetrack atmosphere, and race scenes as dramatic as any being written today.