Straight

Straight
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Автор: Фрэнсис Дик
Язык: английский
Год: 1989
Издатель: G. P. Putnam's Sons
ISBN: 978-0-399-13470-8
Город: New York
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Аннотация

In his stunning twenty-eighth novel, Dick Francis again proves he has no equal.
As Derek Franklin, an injured steeplechase jockey, nears the end of his career, he is thrust into trouble and mayhem by the accidental death of his older brother, Greville: “I inherited my brother’s desk, his business, his gadgets, his enemies, his horses and his mistress,” Derek says. “I inherited my brother’s life, and it nearly killed me.”
With danger besetting him from unknown directions, Derek discovers that honesty can be a deadly virtue and courage the provocation of escalating evil. His only hope of survival is to identify the enemy, but Greville, whose life had as many facets as the gemstones he imported, has left behind more philosophizing than useful clues. “The had scorn the good,” Greville wrote, “and the crooked despise the straight.”
On British racecourses the homestretch is called the finishing straight — the straight run to the winning post — and it is here that a race is finally won or lost. Derek Franklin must call on all his stamina and endurance just to complete the final furlong.
The Washington Post hailed Francis as “better than anybody else in the race... He is a consistent winner.” Straight shows once again that Dick Francis gives a very good ride.

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