- Hardcover: 249 pages
- Publisher: Harpercollins (June 1966)
- ISBN-10: 999741019X
- ISBN-13: 978-9997410191
- Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.4 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Book Description
Being heir to an earldom has no appeal for Henry Grey - he'd much rather be riding as an amateur in nerve-wracking steeplechases. On an impulse he abandons his desk job and starts work transporting horses around the world. Read by the actor Simon MacCorkindale.
From the Back Cover
CWA CARTIER DIAMOND DAGGER WINNER
When amateur jockey and pilot Lord Henrey Grey launches himself into a career in the bloodstock market, he finds more danger and excitement than he’d ever anticipated.
Henry immediately takes to this glittering new world, and when he meets the glamourous Gabriella in Italy, is sure hit the good life. That is, until a horse mysteriously dies in transit and a colleague vanishes. Then Grey discovers that both his predecessors went missing in mysterious circumstances and begins to doubt the wisdom of his career change. Either he has to turn detective or his own disappearance culd be next...
‘Highly ingenious’ Times Literary Supplement
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Flying,
By Toby (Deal, Kent) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Flying Finish (Hardcover)
I loved this book, exciting from beginning to end, and thought the villains were particularly well-done!
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good early Francis novel,
By Martha E. Nelson (Watertown, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Flying Finish (Paperback)
This is a novel about another of Francis' lonely heros, caught between social classes and fairly mysterious to most of those who know him. This one ends up having a fairly riveting story, with genuinely unpleasant villains. as with most of Francis' heros, he is deceptively stubborn and survives hideous experiences to bring things to a safe conclusion. This one, however, leaves some loos ends hanging. We are lefft wondering what will happen to his Italian girlfriend (characteristically, for this hero, they are instantly in love but can't speak the same language, so there is a distance between them, as there is with the rest of the hero's family and acquaintances) and what choices he will make about the rest of his life.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Francis at his worst,
By A Customer
This review is from: Flying Finish (Paperback)
I've read most of Francis' stories and have enjoyed almost all of them. Flying Finish is the exception. All Francis books require the reader to suspend belief. But this one is far-fetched and totally unbelievable. A very disappointing read.
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