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  • Paperback: 9999 pages
  • Publisher: Pan; 16 edition (4 Jun 2010)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0330259830
  • ISBN-13: 978-0330259835
  • Product Dimensions: 11.1 x 2.1 x 17.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
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A royally connected candidate is going for gold at the Moscow Olympic Games. But a mysterious 'Aloysha' has threatened to turn it into an international incident. Ex-steeplechaser Randall Drew knows more about horses than Russians - and more about farming than spying. Yet he still finds himself Moscow-bound, armed only with a vague brief and an invisible opposition. It's time for a winter crash course in Soviet diplomacy . . . 'Trial Run is entirely enjoyable' New York Times
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5.0 out of 5 stars chilling - literally- and thrilling, 11 Dec 2010
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This is one of those Dick Francis books which is hard to put down once you have started. Although the opening doesn't seem promising - hero suffers from poor eye sight and bronchitis and asthma - but nevertheless he turns out to be just as resourceful as the majority of DF's heroes, more so perhaps as he is reluctantly operating in the repressive regime of Russia before glasnost.
The atmosphere is oppressive throughout made even more so by the cold November weather in Moscow.
A gentleman farmer and former amateur steeplechase jockey Randall Drew is trying to find out what is behind a threat to a possible 3-day event rider, with Royal connections, if he participates in the upcoming Olympics. It is interesting to note that this book was published in 1978, two years before the Moscow Summer Olympics in which, if my memory serves me correctly, the British Equestrian team did not take part!!!!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Moscow shenanigans - 3.5 stars, 28 Aug 2009
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Plot synopsis: Randall Drew, gentleman farmer, is not allowed to race any more because of a new rule: jockeys with glasses are banned. So he has time for a jaunt to Moscow, though he doesn't want to go; but when Royalty begs, he jumps. He has to go and find out why a British jockey has been threatened, should he ride in the Moscow Olympics.
book first published in 1978.

I am usually not very keen on Dick Francis books with the action taking place overseas, rather than in Britain; there are exceptions, but this is probably why I feel like this. Couleur locale takes precedence over the story, maybe; more scene setting means less tautness. Still, it is an intelligent thriller, with some good bits of sustained tension; but then again, some bits of nothing much happening. And no romance, boo hiss. A bit looser than Francis' very best ones; but still head and shoulders above most thrillers, I'd say!
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3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps I have Rated a little harsh, 25 April 2011
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I feel that this may be a harsh review but the mixture of terrorists and the races and throw in the royals felt alittle jumbled. However the fantastic idea behind this piece is the secret of survial in Russia i think that if Francis made more of this point this could be brilliant... Anyway another fantastic read by a great.
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