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Avg. Customer Rating: 3.5 / 5.0
Francis is back on form Having avidly read everything Dick Francis has ever written, I was saddened although sympathetic when he retired from writing, as he always said he would, on the death of his wife. Then he produced Under Orders, and I was so disappointed in it that I was ready never to buy another of his books again. So when I saw this book on the shelf of my only supplier of English books for many miles I dithered about whether to shell out the euros and give him one more chance. To be honest, it was curiosity about what... more info
Long live Dick Francis and Son! This is the gist of Dick Francis + Son's Dead Heat, about Max Moreton, a Gourmet Chef. The recipe: take a fillet of horseracing, add a poisoning, a bombing, polo, drugs, some nasty Russians, some dodgy Americans, and stir vigorously. Add orchestral music, murder, suspense, throw in some famous equine locations: Newmarket, Smiths Lawn, Tattersalls, fine dining, a good pinch of humour, together with a fluent and cohesive writing style. I picked it off the shelf based on the horsey cover and the name of... more info
Very weak As an avid fan of Dick Francis I couldn't escape to notice that his books did go somehow downhill since his wife has passed away. This book is co-written by Dick Francis'son, and I am afraid it does not get any better, in fact I feel this is the weakest work yet. The racing conncetion gets more and more unimportant (in fact the restaurant could have been anywhere, and just happens to be in Newmarket), there is no suspense whatsoever, even the dramatic scenes are "created" and fail to get you in a grip. Even... more info
Very disappointing I agree with previous reviewers - this book doesn't read like a Dick Francis. The dialogue is simplistic and bland, plot very thin, racing link extremely tenuous. DF's characters have always been very likeable heroes - but this one was just plain boring! The book had none of the charm of most DF novels. The cover was misleading - I was expecting a racing mystery, not cooking calamity! I kept on reading hoping it would get better, but it didn't.
I will re-read the original DF books and forget about... more info
