Shattered
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| Rating | : | 4.90 (862 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00315QK46 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 466 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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In every page of this terrific new book, he's at the top of it. Perhaps it's because this one is dedicated to the Queen Mother, who celebrated her centennial in 2000, and who, like her famously horsey daughter, shares Francis's passion for the races. Here he does one of his best tricks: lures you into a somewhat arcane area you might know little about and explicates it so brilliantly that you don't even realize how much you've learned (in this case, about glass blowing) while a mystery is unraveled, a crime is solved, and the hero gets the girl. --Jane Adams. And, a few pages later, The speed of development of strong feeling for one another didn't seem to me to be shocking but natur
After his friend is killed in a horse-racing accident, up-and-coming glass artisan Gerard Logan finds himself embroiled in a deadly search for a stolen videotape--a videotape that just might destroy his own life.
M. Hummel said Not His Best Work. To start, I should say that I've been reading Dick Francis for twenty-five years, give or take a couple. I think I've read each and every one of his forty or so books, and have read most two or three times.Francis started out writing strictly horsey mysteries--jockeys, trainers, stablehands, owners, then moved out further and further into other professional and personal worlds, all the while . James C. Coomer said One fence short. Dick Francis has said that this is his last novel. I am glad. The tightly woven, racetrack oriented stories of the early Francis gradually disappeared as he tried to create racing stories around other interests, i.e., hurricanes and glass blowing. Contrary to the dust cover, Shattered is as scattered as Second Wind. After we leave the race track at page 7, we enter into the world of glassblow. ""Shattered", A Dick Francis Mystery Thriller" according to Priscilla Stafford. Gerard Logan is a glass artisan, more generally called a glass-blower. He has what you might call a normal life. But things are just about to get hot when his jockey friend, Martin Stukely, dies in steeplechase accident. From then on, Gerard finds himself involved in a deadly search for a valuable videotape. Martin was the last person who had the tape, now the bad guys think that Gerard have