Trial Run by Dick Francis
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.49 (827 Votes) |
Asin | : | B01MXKXVY5 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 139 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
Language | : | English |
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Trial Run by Dick Francis book has been released since 0000-00-00. Trial Run by Dick Francis are written by Dick Francis and it has 139 of pages on paperback.
Francis takes on terrorism Patto It's not quite his home turf, but Dick Francis does a workmanlike job in this book of plotting a spy thriller. The spy is an amateur, in typical Francis fashion. Randall Drew runs a farm, raises horses and until recently has ridden them in steeplechase events.Randall has poor vision and chronic bronchitis, but he's wealthy, well connected, observant and resourceful. People trust him. A royal prince pressures him into undertaking an investigation that has baffled the Foreign Office.The prince's brother-in-law wants to ride in the Olympics in Moscow. But a rumor has arisen that. Almost 40 and as contemporary as this afternoon Amazon Customer Some of the reviews I've read, some written as long as 15 years ago, fuss about Trial Run as a repetitive artifact of obsolete Cold War attitudes. Looking at the international news here in 2016, I'd say that pronouncing the obituary of the Cold War is a little premature. In Trial Run Francis does paint a picture of Soviet era repression, but with the current mysterious deaths and peremptory jailings of present day Russian dissenters, and revived imperialist aggressions of Putin-era policy, the 1978 USSR looks to me to be not quite as dead as we thought it was or as Francis de. It's like having lunch with a dear friend one hasn't seen Dick Francis and now his son Felix Francis are among my top authors. I keep and at some point reread each one. It's like having lunch with a dear friend one hasn't seen in awhile. They are well written. They are full of information about things I don't usually think about - this often finds me doing a little more research on the issue. I've learned a lot about horse racing and the differences in each country. Good murder mysteries and well worth the investment