Blood Sport

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Gene Hawkins takes on the job of locating a missing priceless breeding stallion But he getsaction than he bargained for from a group of horse thieves who want to put Hawkins out to pasture permanently. Best Download Kindle ePUB Blood Sport By Dick Francis – kino-fada.fr Gene Hawkins is an English civil servant actually a very astute investigator for a department that is never named He s also severely depressed following the end of a love affair and is toying with the idea of suicide He has a three week vacation coming, and this is probably not good news for a man who has no life outside of his work and who is thinking of ending his own life.Just as his vacation begins though, Hawkins s boss asks him to accompany him and his family on a Sunday afternoon boati Gene Hawkins is an English civil servant actually a very astute investigator for a department that is never named He s also severely depressed following the end of a love affair and is toying with the idea of suicide He has a three week vacation coming, and this is probably not good news for a man who has no life outside of his work and who is thinking of ending his own life.Just as his vacation begins though, Hawkins s boss asks him to accompany him and his family on a Sunday afternoon boating outing This is very odd, since the boss has never before asked Hawkins to socialize outside of work The boss s precocious young daughter picks Hawkins up and drives him to th...What is there to say about Dick Francis As I think about all of his books yes, this review covers all of his books, and yes I ve read them all I think about a moral ethical hero, steeped in intelligence and goodness embroiled in evil machinations within British horse racing society either directly or indirectly The heroes aren t always horse jockies, they can be film producers, or involve heroes engaged in peripheral professions that somehow always touch the horse racing world.Buttha What is there to say about Dick Francis As I think about all of his books yes, this review covers all of his books, and yes I ve read them all I think about a moral et...I did not know that this was published in 1967 until I was done with it A very smart, timeless mystery.When Dave Tellers prized race horses, that are worth millions, start mysteriously disappearing and then there is an attempt on his life, he enlists the help of Gene Hawkins, an English agent, who is known for his brilliance at solving cases Gene is extremely methodical and has an amazing gift of perception, on the flip side he is also in a constant state of depression which he is able to hide I did not know that this was published in 1967 until I was done with it A very smart, timeless mystery.When Dave Tellers prized race horses, that are worth millions, start mysteriously disappearing and then there is an attempt on his life, he enlists the help of Gene Hawkins, an English agent, who is known for his brilliance at solving cases Gene is extremely methodical and has an amazing gift of perception, on the flip side he is also in a constant state of depression which he is ...Since this book was originally published in 1967, in many ways it seemed like a step back to a simpler time for me A time with simple technologies, no sex, no cussing, and very mild violence The story centers around the search for 3 missing breeding stallions, and it was made interesting even for someone w...Dick Francis is an awesome writer Whatcan I say Not much Another very Goodread.I love this one by DF It s different It takes place mainly in the American west The hero, unlike most DF heroes is a man who is used to danger He is a burnt out spy and somehow through the action of the bo...I ve read about half of Dick Francis mysteries so far, and I ve noticed a common formula But Blood Sport was quite different in that he didn t use the same basic story architecture that he has used on most all of his other books I ve read In those other books, Francis delves into another line of work, or technology, and explains it and it becomes a major part of the story He s written about movie making, animal food factories, computer viruses, outdoor survival, and art glass You could I ve read about half of Dick Francis mysteries so far, and I ve noticed a common formula But Blood Sport was quite different in that he didn t use the same basic story architecture that he has used on most all of his other books I ve read In those other books, Francis delves into another line of work, or technology, and explains it and it becomes a major part of the story He s written about movie making, animal food factories, computer viruses, outdoor survival, and art glass You could always tell that he found a topic that interested him, researched it, then wrote it into his books This one really doesn t have anything like that Instead, this is very similar to an Ian Fleming James Bond story It is the...Ugh I m really pickin em this summer.If this had been in print I would never have trudged through it As it was, I couldn t wait for it to end I find it hard to believe that it was in the running for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery 1969, but maybe that says something about the competition Ouch.Remember when I reviewed For Kicks, and I said it looked like Francis had considered Daniel Roke for a James Bond with horses series Well, here we have a clinically depressed Bond figure, Genecan Ugh I m really pickin em this summer.If this had been in print I would never have trudged through it As it was, I couldn t wait for it to end I find it hard to believe that it was in the running for an Edgar Award for Best Mystery 1969, but maybe that says something about the competition Ouch.Remember when I reviewed For Kicks, and I said it looked like Francis had considered Daniel Roke for a James Bond with horses series Well, here we have a clinically depressed Bond figure, Genecan t remember don t care, who can t make up his mind whether to kill himself or get over himself As in all the early Francis books, we have an unattached drifter who is too passive for words In this case he s a government fixer of sorts whose boss yet again decides to give him a tough job to see if he ll snap out of it, soldier and get back on the rails if not for Queen and Country, at least out of sense of duty to the...The plot isn t as well tuned as Francis s norm, with an unusual amount of low stakes wandering around looking for clues, but the hero makes it memorable Gene is a former James Bond type secret agent turned private eye unusually for Francis his heroes tend not to be professional hero types suffering from long term, severe depression He spends a lot of the book trying to convince himself not to commit suicide Treatment is never mentioned, and he seems to think it doesn t exist at one poin The plot...

Blood Sport
  • English
  • 24 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 288 pages
  • 0425199169
  • Dick Francis
  • Blood Sport