Thursday, July 08, 2004
And another five
Dead Cert, Nerve, Slay Ride, Smokescreen, and Rat Race are all by Dick Francis. Again, these are mysteries involving the horse industry, generally in Great Britain. Dead Cert is about fixing races by bribing jockeys...and killing jockeys who won't cooperate. Nerve features an up and coming jockey who seems to have lost his courage and disaster seems to be affecting a lot of jockeys recently...hmmmm. Slay Ride is built around issues of racecourse security and takes place mostly in Norway. Smokescreen is peripherally about racehorses in South Africa but features a movie star rather than a jockey and is really about the endurance of men with some info on diamond mines thrown in. Rat Race is based at an airplane taxi service that carries jockeys and trainers to races; is it attempted murder and will someone die the next time?
As you can see, I like Dick Francis. I own all his fiction and read it once a year of so. My whole family likes Dick Francis; we all collect his books and my father buys extra paperback copies to hand out in airports and train stations. The books are light and easy to read, a couple of hours each.
As you can see, I like Dick Francis. I own all his fiction and read it once a year of so. My whole family likes Dick Francis; we all collect his books and my father buys extra paperback copies to hand out in airports and train stations. The books are light and easy to read, a couple of hours each.
# posted by JJ @ 6:24 PM 
