1984 Paperback "Flying Finish" - written by Dick Francis (Mystery Thriller Fiction)
Condition: Good
Seller Notes: “Normal age discoloration and some small creases and tears on front and back covers.”
ISBN-10: 0671509268
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780671509262
Subject: Mystery, Thriller
Author: Dick Francis
Topic: Horse Racing, Gambling
Format: Mass Market, Book
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Publication Year: 1984
Key Details
Author Dick Francis
Format Paperback
Publication Date 1984-02-03
Language English
Publisher Pocket Books
Dimensions
Weight 4.5 Oz
Target Audience
Group Trade
Flying Finish
Henry Grey takes a dirty, demanding job transporting racehorses by air. But when he discovers that he's actually transporting something altogether different, he has to call upon every ounce of resourcefulness he has to land with his life intact.
Written By:
DICK FRANCIS
Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer, whose novels centre around horse racing in England.
After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt. He came to further prominence as jockey to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, riding her horse Devon Loch when it fell, for unexplained reasons, while close to winning the Grand National. He then retired from the turf and became a professional journalist and novelist.
All his novels deal with crime in the horse-racing world, some of the criminals being outwardly respectable figures. The stories are narrated by one of the key players, often a jockey, but sometimes a trainer, an owner, a bookie, or someone in a different profession, peripherally linked to racing. This person is always facing great obstacles, often including physical injury, from which he must fight back with determination. More than forty of these novels became international best-sellers.
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