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- Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; MP3 Una edition (20 July 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1441755578
- ISBN-13: 978-1441755575
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 13.5 x 1.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,225,934 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'When the gloves are off it's very gritty indeed' Daily Telegraph
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Charles Todd makes a living as a painter of horses. Someone else is making a lot more, forging paintings by masters such as Stubbs and Munnings. And selling them to people like Charles' cousin and his wife. People who usually end up dead. When Charles arrives in Australia, he's not there for the surf at Bondi beach. He's right on the trail of the ruthless fraudsters, to whom violence and corruption are part of normal business practice. And he's right in the frame for murder...
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Synopsis: Charles Todd is a painter; of horses, mainly. When he visits his cousin and discovers a nasty crime, he gradually becomes involved in trying to solve a series of robberies; this takes him to Autralia, and the Melbourne Cup. He's ably assisted (albeit rather reluctantly) by his friends Jik and Sarah. Slowly, he finds out more and more - but so do the villains.
Nearly all of Francis' early, middle and early-late books are genuine smashers; some even better than others. And I agree with the review above that this is one of his five best. Tight plot, excellent locations, excellent character interactions, funky dialogue, gradually mounting tension with explosions of even higher tension!
One of Dick Francis most enjoyable books, and you don't get much better than that.
Nearly all of Francis' early, middle and early-late books are genuine smashers; some even better than others. And I agree with the review above that this is one of his five best. Tight plot, excellent locations, excellent character interactions, funky dialogue, gradually mounting tension with explosions of even higher tension!
One of Dick Francis most enjoyable books, and you don't get much better than that.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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In later years, Dick Francis diluted his brand a little by churning out too many novels that were too much the same, but this one is vintage (an apt term since the development of Australian wine exports is a plot point) and, in my opinion, his finest. From the opening page, in which the hero arrives for a family visit and is dumped in the middle of a crime scene, you are in the thick of things and the pace never lets up: especially as this is a chase novel as well as a mystery. Painter Charles Todd finds himself playing gooseberry to his newly-wed best friend and wife as they help him keep one jump ahead of art-forging crooks in a rampage around Australia. The local colour is great ('Come to paint Australia red!' enthuses one character), crazy comedy alternates with high drama, and even characters we only meet for a page or two have an immediate reality.
Francis has his limitations: not least the way his gorgeous heroines seem to manifest their 'impact-making intelligence' mainly by hanging on the hero's every word and asking all the right questions. Still, he manages to pack more nuance into fewer pages than almost any other thriller-writer. For the record, I think his other best books are Slay Ride, Odds Against, Smokescreen, and Forfeit. Flying Finish, Bonecrack and Reflex are good as well.
Francis has his limitations: not least the way his gorgeous heroines seem to manifest their 'impact-making intelligence' mainly by hanging on the hero's every word and asking all the right questions. Still, he manages to pack more nuance into fewer pages than almost any other thriller-writer. For the record, I think his other best books are Slay Ride, Odds Against, Smokescreen, and Forfeit. Flying Finish, Bonecrack and Reflex are good as well.
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The idea behind this book makes you sit up and realy take in everything that is on offer in this book recomend to everyone, infact all the books.
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