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Smokescreen [Kindle Edition]

Dick Francis
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Smokescreen tells of Edward Lincoln, a famous film action man, who finds himself unexpectantly mixed up in a deadly conspiracy.

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Edward Lincoln had scaled the Himalayas, survived deadly car chases, defeated scores of assassins. As a film action man he'd even suffered stoically at the hands of sadistic directors. After finishing his latest film, he's asked to visit South Africa to discover why a dying friend's horses are suddenly doing so badly on the race track. Unfortunately, this attempt to help a friend soon puts Lincoln in harm's way. From a nearly fatal interview to a dangerous mishap in a gold mine, it seems only luck is keeping him alive. But fate has more in store. When the scene in the Kruger wildlife park begins to resemble Lincoln's latest big-screen adventure, even he will wonder what comes next... 'A wonderfully vivid and sinister conclusion in the Kruger National Park' Sunday Times

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 317 KB
  • Print Length: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Penguin (18 Sep 1989)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B002RI99KA
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #21,203 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The story opens in Spain with an actor making a movie "Man in a Car" - not too threatening, you'd think. But when the action moves to South Africa, the opening scene comes back to haunt us with terrifying effect. Dick Francis may not be world class literature, but he's great at taking a horse-racing theme and grafting on new themes to create a fascinating and exciting thriller plot. An excellent book of it's kind - another gripping audiobook from the master of horse-racing thrillers.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By H. Beentje TOP 50 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
The book: Edward Lincoln, son of a stable hand, has made it - he is a successful film star. When a friend asks him to go to Sout Africa, where the friend's horses are not running well, he accepts and travels to Johannesburg. He meets a lot of people, but who is responsible for the bad running, and why? And then the troubles spread - to himself. The scenes he has been filming earlier become a horrible reality...

My opinion: Francis' 11th thriller, first published in 1972, is tautly written, has got good atmosphere, well-drawn people, and a complicated plot that will leave you guessing. Bouts of tension, good detecting; but as the hero is happily married, there is no romance - something that makes the books so satisfyingly complete, otherwise! What we get instead is a couple of scenes that will have claustrophobics (and most of the rest of us, too) cringe.
A good Francis - not his best, but solid gold.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Jo Bennie TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Paperback
Edward Lincoln is a action movie film star, but his family life is quiet, a lovely wife (Charlie) and three children, two sons and a daughter with retarded development due to brain injury. Nerissa is his substitiute mother, she asks Edward to go to South Africa to find out why her horses are no longer winning and he swiftly becomes embroiled in a thriller to more than equal his films, including three attempts on his life (electrocution, burial in explosion at gold mine and abadonment in car in Kruger National Park), a brilliant calculating killer, entrapment attempts by a beautiful girl and the highest stakes: a gold mine, prizewinning horses and Edward's own life.
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