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Rat Race (The Dick Francis library)
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Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He'd done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England's race courses he might be forgiven for expecting the quiet life. But then his plane explodes in a massive fireball. He could have been in it. Some quiet life. Instead he's landed in the middle of a nightmare world where there is big money at stake. Very big money. From then on he finds himself hurtling down a tortuous trail where people are not all they appear, and all around him is sudden bloody death... 'Impossible to stop reading' Daily Telegraph
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Matt Shore was an experienced pilot. He'd done it all. From big jets to flying in supplies to war zones. So when he gets a job ferrying high class punters around England's race courses he might be forgiven for expecting the quiet life. But then his plane explodes in a massive fireball. He could have been in it. Some quiet life. Instead he's landed in the middle of a nightmare world where there is big money at stake. Very big money. From then on he finds himself hurtling down a tortuous trail where people are not all they appear, and all around him is sudden bloody death... 'Impossible to stop reading' Daily Telegraph
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
This is my all-time favourite Dick Francis and I've read quite a few. It's not just the thriller aspect of the book - a conspiracy that results in planes being sabotaged and lives put at risk - but the character of the hero, Matt. At the start of the book he is totally burnt-out and disillusioned, working as a pilot for a one-man outfit who only have one decent plane, divorced and unready for a new relationship (even when a pretty girl offers herself to him on a plate). Although his new assignment to ferry a top jockey around brings him all sorts of trouble, it also brings him into contact with new friends and he begins to have something to live for again. Would he have risked his life for any of these people at the beginning of his transformation? I somehow doubt it. And it's this personal story that makes this book such a satisfying read.
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By Carl Hughes
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
I am a great fan of Dick Francis and have all his books in hardback and paperback. Having recently acquired a Kindle ebook reader I decided to buy all Dick Francis's books in the electronic format too. I will now not be doing so after downloading 'Rat Race' for £5.49. The formating of this electronic book is appalling. The text is full of misprints and spelling mistakes, while extraneous hyphens, semicolons and other punctuation marks appear all over the place where they shouldn't, breaking up the text. What it means is that the publisher has put out a sloppy product without any thought at all. Such sloppy editing and formating would not be tolerated in a hardback or paperback book, and it is no less acceptable in an electronic version for which good money has been paid. Amazon should really not allow publishers to turn out such shoddy work and market it under the Kindle brand name. It reflects badly on Amazon, it cheats the customer and it is just plain slipshod. I don't know who this publisher employs to edit its products, but the person should be sacked for incompetence.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Dick Francis certainly has a gift of writing well; his characters are pleasingly 3-dimensional, his heroes undergo real problems but are stoic and brave, he can build real tension and tells a pretty good romantic story, too. There is not much to beat a good Francis for an airplane ride, or for when you're sick for that matter - you just read about the way the Francis hero takes his pain, and you feel better already!
Rat race (written in 1970) is a gem even among good Francis books. It's got a pilot ferrying jockeys around, so you get both the horse-racing (which Fracis can make sound really good, even for a non-race goer like me) and the flying; there is a in-the-air sequence here that will nail you to your seat. And the love story is really good, too; again, because he can make his characters so real, through just a few deft descriptions and some easy dialogue, that you find yourself taken along for the ride (sorry).
A top story, from a top writer.
Rat race (written in 1970) is a gem even among good Francis books. It's got a pilot ferrying jockeys around, so you get both the horse-racing (which Fracis can make sound really good, even for a non-race goer like me) and the flying; there is a in-the-air sequence here that will nail you to your seat. And the love story is really good, too; again, because he can make his characters so real, through just a few deft descriptions and some easy dialogue, that you find yourself taken along for the ride (sorry).
A top story, from a top writer.
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brilliant writer
What can I say about Dick Francis, just a great author of racing books of which I've read them all.
The experience was made even better in an audio version, thoroughly enjoyed... Read more
The experience was made even better in an audio version, thoroughly enjoyed... Read more
Published 10 months ago by les hobbs
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Tense & Exciting Thriller
I'd not bothered with Dick Francis before as I am not interested in horse racing. ¡Big mistake! This is a genuinely well written fast paced thriller. Read more
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Really enjoyable yarn
This is the first Dick Francis book I've read. I didn't know if Id like his books as Im not interested in horse racing, but picked this as the reviews seemed good.Im glad I did. Read more
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AN EXCELLENT LISTEN!
I listen to audio books when I do the ironing, this one was so good, I scortched most of it!
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