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Blood Sport (Paperback)

by Dick Francis (Author)
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  • Paperback: 345 pages
  • Publisher: Pan Books (1 Jun 2007)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330450417
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330450416
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 38,056 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Gene Hawkins woke on the first day of his holiday with his hand on the Luger under his pillow, and a ringing in his ears. His boss was on the phone, inviting him on a family boat trip up the Thames. Keeble didn't fraternise with his employees unless he wanted something. What he wanted now was for Gene to spend three weeks looking for kidnapped stallions in Kentucky. He wouldn't take no for an answer. But before the afternoon was out Gene's survival skills were called on cloer to home - catapulting him into a maelstrom of blackmail and murder that would turn the blue grass of Kentucky to red..."Rivals his excellent Flying Finish" - "Times Literary Supplement". "Thundering skullduggery...impressive turn of speed ...champion form" - "Sunday Telegraph".

About the Author
Dick Francis has written thirty-nine novels, a volume of short stories ( Field of 13), his autobiography (The Sport of Queens), and the biography of Lester Piggott. He is rightly acclaimed as one of greatest thriller writers in the world. He has received many awards, amongst them the prestigious Crime Writers Association's Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the genre, and the Mystery Writers of America have given him three Edgar Allan Poe awards for the best novel of the year, and in 1996 mad him a Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement. He was awarded the CBE in the Queen's Birthday Honours List in 2000. Dick Francis divides his time between England and an island in the Caribbean.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Solid Dick Francis - detective, thriller, romance, 8 May 2009
By Dr. H. Beentje (Kew, England) - See all my reviews
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Gene Hawkins, investigator, suffers from 'the fat black slug of depression' and is on the edge of doing away with himself. He doesn't really want to know about the third stallion of international standing that has disappeared in kentucky, or about the boat trip on the Thames above Henley that his boss invites him on; but rather abruptly he becomes involved anyway, with the disappeared horses, and with a charming lass, too.

Francis' flair for painting a real, complete person in a few paragraphs, widely separated; his spare, effective, seemingly effortless style; his great stories, his way of creating and keeping up the tension, the emotions; the detection/solving of puzzles; it is all very well done, as always in this period of his writing (this book is from 1967). One star taken away because I felt that the depressed bit was taken a bit too far, overshadowed the story too much; but a most enjoyable book anyway.
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