- Hardcover: 219 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins (Feb 1974)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060113367
- ISBN-13: 978-0060113360
- Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 20.1 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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In Norway, a British jockey has gone missing and investigator David Cleveland is on the trail. Bob Sherman has disappeared from Oslo racecourse and a day's takings from the turnstiles has gone with him. No one can find any trace of him, and Cleveland is everybody's last resort.
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David Cleveland is looking forward to Norway. A change of scenery, an old friend and a straight-forward looking case. An English jockey has gone missing; and so have the racecourse takings. It all looks so simple until a dead body turns up ... unannounced. The Racecourse Committee fields questions like some Norwegian Politburo and the only answers Cleveland gets are violent ones ... from a gang of professional killers. So, with maverick Marxist Erik Lund playing minder, he constructs a trap for his would-be assailants ... with himself as bait.
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Format:Paperback
Synopsis: Dick Francis' 12th racing thriller plays mostly in Norway. David Cleveland, Jockey Club investigator, has come over to find an English jockey who has disappeared with a day's racing entry fees. But he finds more than a jockey - he finds serious trouble, with several attempts being made on his life. People are not what they seem to be, and the motives are very confusing...
Strange that this book is 36 years old - it still reads fresh. Most of it is a corker, too, with crisp clear writing, tension, thrills, humour, good dialogue and small tidy packages of quick-draw perfectly formed personalities. Four-and-a-half stars, as the ending, I feel is not quite up to the rest of the story.
Yes, this is a thriller/detective story set in the horse-racing world, but it is also a very intelligent book, and *very* well-written. I am not into horse racing, really, but Dick Francis can make me care deeply about most things - he is a fantastic writer.
Strange that this book is 36 years old - it still reads fresh. Most of it is a corker, too, with crisp clear writing, tension, thrills, humour, good dialogue and small tidy packages of quick-draw perfectly formed personalities. Four-and-a-half stars, as the ending, I feel is not quite up to the rest of the story.
Yes, this is a thriller/detective story set in the horse-racing world, but it is also a very intelligent book, and *very* well-written. I am not into horse racing, really, but Dick Francis can make me care deeply about most things - he is a fantastic writer.
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I love Dick Francis's books about Horse Racing and crime .I start the book and cannot put it down till 'The End'arrives.Fantastic.
I love Dick Francis's books about Horse Racing and crime .I start the book and cannot put it down till 'The End'arrives.Fantastic.
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