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Dead Weight [Kindle Edition]

John Francome (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews) |
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After a crashing fall, champion rider Phil Nicholas returns to racing, but though his body has healed, his mind has not. Flashbacks of his accident invade his dreams, rob him of his sleep - and freeze him in the saddle. While Phil is battling to overcome his fear, his weighing-room colleague Adrian Moore is viciously attacked after losing a race he should have won. It's the start of a vendetta by someone determined to hurt those who break the rules of racing. If Phil wants to save the sport - and the woman he loves - it's time for him to recover his nerve...
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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 485 KB
  • Print Length: 420 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0747266085
  • Publisher: Headline (4 Mar 2010)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B004M18NH0
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #36,708 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Francome's best yet! 23 Nov 2001
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Format:Hardcover
I enjoyed this pacy horse-racing thriller even more than Francome's Lifeline (which is also a great read). There's a jockey who's lost his bottle - it must happen all the time but I've never read about it before - a punter with the ultimate grudge, a sexy horse-physio with magic hands and loads of other good characters. Plus all the other stuff you'd expect from a racing legend (ie lots of gripping racecourse scenes). It's a winner!
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We all know you've got to be mad to ride horses in jump races but no one ever writes about the mental challenges of National Hunt jockeys - at least not till now. So hooray for John Francome, champion jockey and Channel 4 pundit, whose terrific new novel features a hero who's lost his bottle. If Phil ever let on he was seeing a shrink he'd be laughed out of the weighing room and, so he thinks, kicked out of the bedroom of his sexy young wife. To hang on to her and his number one spot at the top trainer's yard he's got to take on a psycho built like a brick outhouse who's waging war against the whole racing world...

I read this and Francome's last (Lifeline - also first rate) in one go and reckon he's really hitting his stride as a horseracing novelist. There's great characters, tons of nailbiting racecourse action, sex and jokes - in other words it's full of Francome-style insights into the world he knows best. If you like horseracing thrillers you've got to give this a go.

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Francom writes well, can tell a good story, and of course knows his main subject. That's a pretty good start for any author. But although I enjoyed this latest offering I did not find it to be one of his best. The horsey bits are as usual excellent with an original and thoughtful theme. But oh dear the sex is weak and corney and largely unecessary, and for me the violence is excessive. The shifting "point of view" amongst the other characters I found an anoyance. Phil is by far the most interesting person and most of the others are a distraction. In fact Phil and Julia are good enough to feature again without all the elements that did not appeal to me. Now there's a challenge!
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