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Come to Grief (Unabridged) [Audio Download]

by Dick Francis (Author), Tony Britton (Narrator)
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  • Listening Length: 10 hours and 52 minutes
  • Program Type: Audiobook
  • Version: Unabridged
  • Publisher: AudioGO Ltd.
  • Audible Release Date: 2 Nov 2005
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B002SPXC0A
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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Sid Halley, the ex-champion jockey turned investigator who appears in Odds Against and Whip Hand, is back and facing new dilemmas and dangers. The opening finds him having uncovered an obnoxious crime committed by a friend whom he, and everyone else, has held in affection bordering on love. On the morning set for the opening of the friend's trial, at which Sid is due to be called as a witness, other people's miseries explode and send him spinning into pulverizing days of hard, rational detection, and heart-searching torments. Troubled, courageous, and unwilling to admit defeat, for Sid Halley it is business as usual.
©1995 Dick Francis; (P)1996 Chivers Audio Books
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By H. Beentje TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
(one in a series of Dick Francis reviews in which I try and separate all those rather similar titles, and in which I try not to give away plot lines)

The book: Sid Halley, ex-jockey and investigator (known to true Francis aficionados from Odds Against and Whip Hand), is in the public's bad books - he has accused a very popular friend of a nasty crime. And it is tough trying to prove the friend is guilty - when no-one wants to talk to you any more. His jockey powers of being able to take pain come in handy when he is attacked...

The writer: Dick Francis was Champion Jockey in 1953-1954, gave up professional riding in 1962 or 1963, and took up writing; he wrote a novel a year for almost 40 years! He has been accused of writing about the rich and aristocracy - absolute rubbish, as this book (among others) shows: the hero was born on a Liverpool council estate and survives by his wits.

My opinion: Francis has not just a beautiful, captivating writing style; his books also have thrills aplenty, and they have *heart* besides. Among all the action and tension he (briefly) discusses important feelings in a rather nice way - good stuff. Bravery, bearing spite, loss, betrayal, cancer... this book pulls you right in. A very satisfying read.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Top Notch 2 Dec 1999
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Format:Paperback
This was a really solid entry in Dick Francis' canon. All the ingredients we expect were here, from interesting characters to a plot with enough twists, shocks and bumps to keep the pace to the end. Highly recommended....
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Format:Paperback
I'd never read any Dick Francis novels before, so I thought I'd read this just to see what they are like. It is set in the racing world, as one would expect, and tells of the investigations of Sid Halley, a former jockey turned investigator.

The story is original, and to my knowledge has not been done before, and this made the book refreshing and interesting to read. It is more violent than I was expecting but this does not detract from the quality of the story.

One soon gets gripped by the story and becomes keen to follow it through to the end. - Surely the sign of a good book. While I think the character development was at times questionable, and the ending weaker than it should have been, this is a solid thriller, better than a lot out there.

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