Shattered: Complete & Unabridged
Author | : | |
Rating | : | 4.43 (760 Votes) |
Asin | : | 0754054284 |
Format Type | : | paperback |
Number of Pages | : | 199 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"When the glass shattered, the hero won." according to C. Daniel McClean. An excellent story and very well told by a person who, when much younger, was a fighter pilot fighting the Battle of Britain with the RAF. Following the war, he was a steeplechase Jockey, riding horses belonging to the Queen Mother. He was a champion jockey on several occasions. When he became "too old" for jump racing, he started writing a racing column for a newspaper. He then started writing books and he became one of my favorite authors. His books were all well researched and told. Fragility and Beauty This has always been a favorite among his novels because of the glass shop and "fragility" of character and " transparency" evident in the racing world once one learns how to see what goes on behind the scenes. Logan is the typical hero ( typical of a Francis hero) in that he is calm, sensible, sensitive , and effectively deals with crises without putting himself narcissistically at the center. I have read this book maybe four times and see something new each time.. 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 maintaining some link to British horse racing. The clump of books in the sixties, including Ne
When jockey Martin Stukely dies after a fall at Cheltenham, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. The final race to the tape throws more hazards in Logan's way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined. To survive, he realizes that he himself must sort out the truth. Long accustomed to the frightful dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a glassmaking furnace at never less than 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, Logan is suddenly faced with terrifying threats to his business, his courage, and his life. Logan doesn'tbut it's a close-run thing.. Logan is a glassblower on the verge of widespread acclaim. Believing that the missing video holds the key to a priceless treasure, and wrongly convinced that
Francis's protagonists may be accidental heroes, but they're not antiheroes; they're usually eminently decent, likable men, and their sense of self is always interesting. But Dick Francis's latest thriller is as good as his earliest. Why should I want to change them?" It may be Francis's English reticence that keeps him, mercifully, from spoiling a good mystery with what other writers consider the obligatory sex scene, or it just may be the mastery of his form that few of his peers approach. This time the mise en scène is the glass blowing studio owned by Gerard Logan, friend of the l