- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd; New edition edition (5 Feb 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718130375
- ISBN-13: 978-0718130374
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,511,552 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Henry Grey is a reserved young man whose greatest problem is his mother's match-making plots and whose greatest joy is to ride as an amateur steeplechase jockey. But on a sudden impulse, he throws in his respectable desk job to join a firm which transports racehorses all over the world.
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When amateur jockey and pilot Lord Henry Grey launches himself into a career in the bloodstock market, he finds more danger and excitement than he’d ever anticipated. Henry immediately takes to his glittering new world and, when he meets the glamorous Gabriella in Italy, is sure he’s hit the good life. That is, until a horse mysteriously dies in transit and a colleague vanishes. Then Grey discovers that both his predecessors went missing in mysterious circumstances and begins to doubt the wisdom of his career change. Either he has to turn detective or his own disappearance could be next . . .
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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 plotlines)
The book: Henry Grey is in horse transporting - by air. Because he is a toff the other staff make his life tough - but is that the only reason, or are they trying to distract his attention? When Henry begins looking closer at horses flying to and from the USA and Italy, more trouble ensues. But there is also a handsome Italian girl to distract him... and help him in his investigations into the how, the why, and the who.
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Dick Francis flew various planes in World War II (a fact that must have inspired some exciting flying scenes in this book!) and was a professional jockey afterwards; he was Champion Jockey, but hung up his professional books and turned to writing thrillers. He died in 2010. This was his fifth thriller, from 1966.
My opinion: one of his best - and that is saying something! Beautiful, taut writing, with believable characters, brilliantly sustained tension, and a love story to blow you out of your socks.
The book: Henry Grey is in horse transporting - by air. Because he is a toff the other staff make his life tough - but is that the only reason, or are they trying to distract his attention? When Henry begins looking closer at horses flying to and from the USA and Italy, more trouble ensues. But there is also a handsome Italian girl to distract him... and help him in his investigations into the how, the why, and the who.
The writer:
Dick Francis flew various planes in World War II (a fact that must have inspired some exciting flying scenes in this book!) and was a professional jockey afterwards; he was Champion Jockey, but hung up his professional books and turned to writing thrillers. He died in 2010. This was his fifth thriller, from 1966.
My opinion: one of his best - and that is saying something! Beautiful, taut writing, with believable characters, brilliantly sustained tension, and a love story to blow you out of your socks.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Lord Henry Gray is a reluctant aristocrat, holiding down a desk job at a the Anglia Bloodstock Agency, much to his family's disapproval, and dodging his mother's efforts at marrying him off for money escaping to his true passions as an amateur jockey and pilot. When he tires of the desk job and takes on a job as head groom for Yardman's equine transport business he becomes involved with a shady world of smuggling, and meets the beautiful Gabriella in Milan
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This great novel can be read as a straightforward thriller with plenty of excitement, an unusual hero, a really unpleasant and thoroughly believable villain, and a finish of rare suspense. The writing is taught, economical and draws you into the story so that you feel completely involved with it.
But two elements make it much more than just a thriller. The love story running through all the blood and thunder is among the most touching I've ever read. And, as in all Dick Francis' books, the underlying theme is the triumph of the human spirit over evil and disaster, written without schmulz or overpainting. I've read all his thrillers more than once, and this is my top favourite.
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Flying finish
This is an excellent read.Informative about a world of flying and horses with a the usual intrigue and of course a little romance. Read more
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Excellent Thriller
First class trademark thriller from the well known ex-jockey. The hero is very much a mans man and readers looking for an old fashioned thriller won't be disappointed. Read more
Published on 30 Aug 2003 by Duncan Light
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