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Dick Francis
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For millionaire jockey Alan York, winning is a bonus. For Joe Nantwich, victory means no cushy backhanders; and for Bill Davidson, front running on strongly fancied Admiral, triumph means murder. His own.
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A Classic Dick Francis Story
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One of my favorite Dick Francis books!
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The plot was intriguing
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The last place veteran horseman Randall Drew wanted to go was Moscow. But when his royal highness the prince asks a favor, one doesn’t refuse. The Royal Family is worried about the prince’s brother in law, who aims to make the Olympics. Unfortunately a jealous Russian rider has sworn to kill him if he sets one hoof in Moscow. So Randall leaves his thoroughbred horses and loving girlfriend to investigate. But what he finds is more than jealousy. It’s a terrifying track of sabotage and murder. And now that he knows, the killer is after him.
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Excellent
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hampion jockey Robert Sherman has disappeared right before his wife was about to give birth. And right before he was sure to win the National. A coincidence? British investigator David Cleveland doesn’t think so. He’s convinced someone made Sherman disappear, but with every answer David gets, the body count rises. And if he isn’t careful, the next body might just be his own.
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Slay Ride : review
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To the Hilt
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Featuring the gripping plot, dramatic settings and believable characters that listeners have come to expect from Dick Francis, To the Hilt displays the master at the top of his form.
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Relaxed Entertainment
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Rat Race
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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. That is until he’s forced to make an emergency landing just minutes before the plane explodes. Luckily nobody is hurt, but it isn’t long before Matt realizes that he’s caught up in a rat race among violent criminals, who are dead set on putting anyone who stands in their way on the wrong side of the odds.
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Vintage Francis
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Driving Force
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A dead hitchhiker, empty canisters found at the bottom of several trucks, and the murder of a harmless mechanic are the bizarre events that lead ex-jockey Freddie Croft to suspect that his transport company, Driving Force, is involved in drug smuggling, or something far worse.
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A Good Suspenseful Mystery....
- De R. Pontiflet en 04-12-15
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The Danger
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Kidnapping is Andrew Douglas's business: they take them, he finds them. But it isn't so simple when Alessia Cenci, golden-girl jockey, disappears, followed by the young child of a derby winner and the senior steward of the Jockey Club. From Italy to England to Washington, D.C., Andrew's caseload is suddenly, violently overflowing. And he must fight triply hard to keep his own name off the growing list of victims.
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Good but disturbing
- De oseedee en 06-08-23
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Comeback
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When globe-hopping British First Secretary Peter Darwin returns to his childhood home for a visit, he is sorry. Waiting for him were long-hidden memories, a string of racehorse deaths and homicide. As Darwin begins to realize that the key to all of it involves his own past, he wishes he'd never come back, because he just might never leave again—alive.
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Like the story, but sound was weird
- De Jeanette en 11-07-22
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Flying Finish
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- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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Henry Grey is a man who needs a change. His job as an office worker is as tedious as the women his mother sets him up with. His new job transporting thoroughbred racehorses to exotic international destinations should perk up his mundane existence. However, when he intercepts a cryptic message hidden in the bottom of a smuggled bottle of birth control pills, Grey learns that horses are not his only cargo.
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Disappointing for a Fan
- De Connie T. en 04-25-22
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Wild Horses
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- Narrado por: Simon Prebble
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When Thomas Lyon decides to make a movie based on an unsolved crime that shocked the horseracing world in Wild Horses, he discovers that someone will do anything - including commit murder - to make sure this story isn't told.
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Loved this Book - Problems with the download fixed
- De Casey en 07-31-11
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Decider
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Architect and family man Lee Morris never gave much thought to the shares he inherited of the Stratton Park racecourse, the multi-million dollar property owned by the powerful Stratton family. His mother had first received the shares to keep her quiet about the abuse she had suffered at the hands of her first husband, Keith Stratton. Now, much to Lee's chagrin, he is being drawn into the thick of the Stratton family squabbles as they wage a furious debate over the future of the race track.
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An Entertaining Story With a Realistic Flavor
- De R. Pontiflet en 05-23-17
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Risk
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- Narrado por: Ralph Cosham
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Roland Britten, accountant and amateur jockey, awakens one morning to find he can’t move his hands—because he is tied up with netting, held captive where no light penetrates and no amount of yelling will get any attention. But why?
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Not a typical Dick Francis
- De Jean en 11-14-16
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- 10-03-11
A great novel
Well performed! (I agree that the drunken guy was quite dramatic, but probably realistic...anyhow it is just a short bit). Still, I could listen to Tony Britton all day. He really brings life to these novels.
Fabulous story. If you like Dick Francis' style, you'll enjoy this one about steeplechasing.
After the book hits the climax, it continues for a while to resolve another plot point. Nice because I wanted more. Kind of like one of those classical symphonies that sounds like it is ending, but then goes on to entertain for a while longer.
Brilliant.
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- Kathy
- 05-18-10
Book, narrator superb; recording quality poor
I find all the Dick Francis novels wonderful to listen to while in my car. Although I've read them all, some twice, Tony Britton's narration improves on the books -- the various accents he manages are a revelation (we don't read in accents, actually). I sympathize with the listener who didn't enjoy hearing Britton cover Joe's drunken whining, but it was as grating as the character was intended to be. The single great flaw is in the recording quality. It is remarkably uneven, both in volume and tone, such that different takes or sessions become extremely obvious. If this were a film, we'd be looking for the continuity director. In this case the engineer should be taken out and hung.
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- H. Hill
- 04-01-07
excellent
This reading of Dead Cert is a pleasure. The narrator, Tony Britton, is superb. The individual characters are distinct, and Britton reads with panache.
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-28-15
Why a different version?
I've been a member of Audible for years and downloaded this audiobook multiple times. On every other occasion, what I heard was the Simon Prebble rendition. This time it was read by Tony Britton. He is a good narrator, but it's not the book I paid for. I shouldn't have to keep all my books on my device in order to ensure that I don't get a different version of it from one listen to the next. This sort of thing has been happening a lot lately. I listen to the books so often that I almost
know some of them by heart, and when something is different, I notice it immediately.
Regarding the book itself, it's the very first one by Dick Francis, the one that made him a star in the world of detective fiction. His writing improved with subsequent books, but all the great qualities were already present--his ability to depict people's innate character, in particular.
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- Amazon Customer
- 04-10-07
Classic writer
Dick Francis is the gentleman of writers. I always enjoy his stories , the descriptions make you feel like you are there with the hero.
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- Chung
- 01-25-10
A decent mystery novel
This is a well-written mystery, and I will likely try the next book by this author.
Unlike the previous reviewer, I thought Tony Britton reads rather well. The "crying, drunken man" character is perhaps excessive, but it is a tiny fraction of the total narration.
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- Sisu Girl
- 11-22-11
Dick Francis is an addictive and dependable!
I've read all of Dick Francis' many novels several times. I just love them. It does me good to identify with his durable, independent protagonist, and I love the world of horses.
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- Ian
- 04-20-15
Dick Francis. An author consistently among the bes
Fantastic !!! As usual I enjoy rereading his books and this is actually the 3rd time around. So what else can I say.
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- Jane
- 03-03-12
Amateur sleuth does too many stupid things
The cover of the book says “Dick Francis The Grand Master of Crime Fiction.” Sorry, but I disagree. Too much illogic and stupidity. Alan’s father tells others “Alan has a Sherlock-Holmes-type nature. He is good at sniffing out trouble and bad guys.” Well, I don’t recall Sherlock Holmes doing stupid things. Sure Alan figures out who the bad guys are and causes them to get caught, but he does stupid things along the way.
Stupidity examples:
1. During a race, a bad guy strings wire over a jumping fence that kills Bill. Alan sees the wire but he’s not sure what it is. Does he immediately go to the authorities to investigate? No. He spends hours at the hospital with Bill’s wife, and then later goes to the race course to investigate. He sees the wire. Does he take a picture of it or take someone with him as a witness? No. He goes away and brings someone back later, and by that time it’s gone. The local policeman questions a few race course employees, but he doesn’t do any more investigating. The reason is there is no second witness to the wire. Also, why did the bad guy wait hours before removing the wire? Not logical.
2. Thugs attack Alan telling him to stop investigating. He receives more threats. He is about to run another race, and he expects the bad guys will put up a wire to take him down. His thinking is “I don’t want the other jockeys to get hurt, so I’ll stay in front and take the wire.” STUPID!!!! He is wealthy. He could easily hire some private investigator or body guard types to hide near the various jumping fences with cameras. They could take pictures of bad things happening and probably prevent it. Did he do anything like that? No. Instead, his horse hit the wire, he fell on the ground, got tromped by other horses, and then a bad guy walks up and kicks him in the head and ribs, giving him amnesia, a concussion, and broken ribs on top of the other injuries. Would Sherlock Holmes do that? No.
3. Alan knows a bad guy is sitting in his office, has a gun, and wants Alan dead. Alan’s weapon is a roll of coins in a bag. Alan goes to the bad guy, plans to sneak up on him and hit him before he can be shot. Why doesn’t Alan take a better weapon or someone with him?
Incomplete ending:
Alan has a scuffle with a bad guy. The bad guy gets injured, but the book ends without saying what the injury is. Is the guy dead or alive? Will there be evidence to put him away? We don’t know. The happy ending is “Alan didn’t get injured in that scuffle.”
Unsupported romance thrown in:
This felt like the author threw in a romance without paying attention. It wasn’t realistic. Alan meets Kate. He thinks she is beautiful. They have two dates: one out to dinner and one at her home. He kisses her once. She kisses like a sister. He looks forward to awakening her passionate nature later. He tells her he loves her and wants to marry her. He proposes more than once. There was no character development about her. Does she have anything upstairs? She never said anything of interest. I don’t know what they talked about. What made him love her? This needed some dialogue.
No cell phones:
This was published in 1962, before cell phones. Frequently I thought how different this story would be if Alan had a cell phone. I suppose it is interesting to be reminded of what life was like without them.
My favorite part:
I really liked the story about Tompkins who owned a local bar. Thugs beat him up and destroyed his property. They wanted weekly extortion money. I liked what he did to protect himself and what he did with other local shop owners. He did smart things that worked. He was my hero. But his story wasn’t big enough. It was a minor side story.
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I will probably avoid the narrator Tony Britton if I can. I think he would be ok for British people, but his British accent was hard for me to understand. I had to concentrate and pay careful attention. It took energy. Hearing American speak is easier and more enjoyable for me. Some reviewers complained about his voice for the drunk character Joe. I didn’t like it either, but it was only a few scenes. My problem was his narration of the whole book. Don’t get me wrong. I love to hear people speak with a British accent in conversation. I just don’t want an entire book of it.
ENDING: happy although incomplete.
GENRE: mystery suspense.
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- Stanley Lance
- 10-22-09
Note to Tony Britton
Dear Mr. Narrator,
The story was good until I couldn't handle the narration anymore. Most of your reading was excellent. Unfortunately... well... please, never again use the "crying drunken man" voice. I couldn't handle it. Oh how I tried... on sunny days, chilly evenings, relaxing afternoons... but no time is a good time to listen to that voice. I was disappointed. I don't blame you... somebody should have told you. But I cannot finish this book. Please re-record and send me the replacement.
Kind regards,
Zachary
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