- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Eclipse Press (Sep 1 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1581501315
- ISBN-13: 978-1581501315
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 16.2 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #886,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Those who have read or seen Million Dollar Baby will find this posthumously published mystery from the late Murray to be curiously familiar. There is the crusty old trainer with deep emotional wounds, his faithful sidekick who more or less tells the story, and a young woman from the wrong side of the tracks with an unquenchable desire to be somebody. Because this is Murray, however, the milieu has been changed from boxing to racing, and the trainer trains, the sidekick bets, and the young woman rides Thoroughbred horses at Santa Anita and Del Mar in Southern California. Also, the sidekick is former gangland enforcer Sal "Bones" Righetti, whose innate nosiness leads him to search for the source of apprentice riding sensation Jill Aspen's troubled psyche. That search puts Righetti in harm's way, but he got his nickname by breaking bones, and he is nobody's pushover. Meanwhile, trainer Jake Fontana is preparing a rawhide-tough three-year-old that Righetti owns and Aspen rides, appropriately named Tumultuous, for the biggest race of his life. Murray's many fans will not be disappointed by his final act. Dennis Dodge
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Dead Heat is a story of obsessions--of people driven to pursue their dreams and their desires at whatever cost. The haunted young woman who shows up one day outside the horse trainer, Jake Fontana's tack room at the Santa Anita racetrack is not merely looking for work, but has an agenda: she wants to become a great race rider.
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Really Sad That This Is His Last Book, Sep 18 2005
By snappyguynj - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Dead Heat (Hardcover)
This is Murray's last book, having passed away earlier this year. If you are a racing fan or otherwise interested in the world of the racetrack and the crazy people who inhabit it, buy this book. It's funny, touching, and all too familiar for those who love the horses. And then buy all of Murray's racing mysteries. This final book is a great read and I hated to see it end. Murray captured what makes a day at the races so special to many of us. One of these days I'll finally get out to Del Mar and hoist a beer and a few losing tickets in Murray's memory. Until then I'm stuck with the great books he wrote. If you love racing, you'll love this book.
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For Racetrack Fans, Sep 16 2009
By Peter Weissman - Published on Amazon.com
Ce commentaire est de: Dead Heat (Hardcover)
I was taken by the racetrack accuracy of this book, the author's evident familiarity with the world of trainers and owners, jockeys and agents; stakes horses, horses running for a claiming price, horses in maiden races, etc. And Murray clearly knows the ins and outs of an actual race, from the influence of the track surface on a particular horse to the predilections of certain horses to run in front and others to come from behind. And he knows a thing or two about betting as well. All of which, as a racetrack railbird over the years, I appreciated and enjoyed.
But as a mystery reader, I found the plot unconvincing and at times uninteresting, drawn as it is against the so much more convincing details of the racing game. And after a while the characters' repeated assertions about how wonderful the world of the racetrack is--better than any other--put me off my feed, so to speak. Though I don't disagree with the sentiment, it yanked me away from the story and all but sank the plot beneath the notion that the mystery was no more than a device to enable Murray to talk about the world of racing.I Think, Therefore Who Am I?
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