- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd; New edition edition (26 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718134540
- ISBN-13: 978-0718134549
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,265,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Robert Finn, a steeplechase jockey, finds himself the focus of a malicious campaign and when it begins to affect his friends as well, he sets out to uncover its source and remove it. This is the author's second racing thriller and was first published in 1964.
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A man doesn't publicly shoot himself in the head in broad daylight with no warning. But Art Mathews did. Pip Pankhurst found his shin bone sticing out of his leg, and his rides over for the season. Grant Oldfield needed help. The kind a psychiatrist gives. It was as though there was a hoodoo on the whole jockey tribe. Then Robb Finn started riding losers. Too many to be a coincidence. Thirteen out of fifteen too many. Finn needs to know just what the hell is going on. However no one is talking. but Finn soon realises he is alone in a world where the only pointers are violence, dope, and the malignant force of twisted envy... 'Superbly exciting' Daily Express
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8 of 8 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)
'Nerve' (1964) is a scorcher! Rob Finn is a rather unsuccesful workaday jockey. Then, a rather succesful jockey shoots himself, and more and more things go wrong for other jockeys; there seems to be a general edginess between trainers and jockeys, and nasty rumours abound. After appearing on television as a 'typical unsuccesful jockey' Finn's rides also seem to be gettng slower and slower. The story is how he finds out what is happening, and why, and what he does about it. My only gripe is some cod psychiatry, but the sustained tension and an excellent love story interwoven with the plot more than make up for it.
The bare bones don't really do justice to it, but this is an absolute Francis cracker, with plenty of suffering, af bearing up, of dealing with adversity without moaning, about changing misfortune to a positive outcome. read this when you're ill, or otherwise sorry for yourself - it buckles you up! Seriously, Francis is hitting his stride here, and writes very well about the down-to-earth grittiness of being a jockey, but also about the absolute elation that can come with a good race. And imparts some more of his philosophy: ".... a refusal to be content with a low standard, when a higher one could be achieved merely by working."
Enormously satisfactory.
'Nerve' (1964) is a scorcher! Rob Finn is a rather unsuccesful workaday jockey. Then, a rather succesful jockey shoots himself, and more and more things go wrong for other jockeys; there seems to be a general edginess between trainers and jockeys, and nasty rumours abound. After appearing on television as a 'typical unsuccesful jockey' Finn's rides also seem to be gettng slower and slower. The story is how he finds out what is happening, and why, and what he does about it. My only gripe is some cod psychiatry, but the sustained tension and an excellent love story interwoven with the plot more than make up for it.
The bare bones don't really do justice to it, but this is an absolute Francis cracker, with plenty of suffering, af bearing up, of dealing with adversity without moaning, about changing misfortune to a positive outcome. read this when you're ill, or otherwise sorry for yourself - it buckles you up! Seriously, Francis is hitting his stride here, and writes very well about the down-to-earth grittiness of being a jockey, but also about the absolute elation that can come with a good race. And imparts some more of his philosophy: ".... a refusal to be content with a low standard, when a higher one could be achieved merely by working."
Enormously satisfactory.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I find all of Dick Francis' novels worth reading, always entertaining and this is one of his best, having said that I have not read any of his books that I would give less than 4 stars.
Lots of action, good plot, highly recommended.
Lots of action, good plot, highly recommended.
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