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Driving Force
Driving Force
Author: Dick Francis
ISBN-13: 9780449221396
ISBN-10: 0449221393
Publication Date: 12/29/1993
Pages: 384
Rating:
  • Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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3.8 stars, based on 63 ratings
Publisher: Fawcett
Book Type: Paperback
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This is a good horseracing thriller. It is Francis's 31st mystery book set against a racing background.
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Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Craft. He runs his fleet of vans and their drivers with tight reins,strict security, and everything on the up and up. But one driver breaks a cardinal rule-never pick up a hitchhiker and the results and fatal..for the hitchhiker.
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From the book's cover: " Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. He runs his fleet of vans and their drivers with tight reins, strict security, and everything on the up-and-up. But one driver breaks a cardinal rule - never pick up a hitchhiker - and the results are fatal ... for the hitchhiker. A corpse is not only bad for business, its also bad for Freddie's long-term survival. For the corpse's trail leads to corpse number two - and to strange nighttime stalkers and unseen conspirators who are weaving a web of deceit and danger that Freddie might never escape..."
One of Francis' better mysteries - an excellent read!
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Enlightening reading if you know nothing of English horse racing, which I did not.
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Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. He runs his fleet of vans and their drivers with tight reins, strict security, and everything on the up-and-up. But one driver breaks a cardinal rule--never pick up a hitchhiker--and the results are fatal...for the hitchhiker.

A corpse is not only bad for business, it's also bad for Freddie's long-term survival. For the corpse's trail leads to corpse number two--and to strange nighttime stalkers and unseen conspirators who are weaving a web of deceit and danger that Freddie might never escape....
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good mystery about a jockey turned transporter of horses who has a corpse turn up in one of his vans.
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YA-- From the first paragraph, the action grabs readers and plunges ahead like one of the thoroughbreds that is such valuable secondary characters in every Francis novel. As usual, a particular aspect of the British racing industry is carefully profiled, in this case the job of transporting horses. Former jockey Freddie Croft is the owner of just such a business, and must confront the discovery that his vans have been used for some very unusual smuggling. Freddie discovers two separate plots to victimize race horses through disease; along the way a bit of romance begins to enrich his life, a trusted employee is murdered, computer files are wiped out, and a malicious villain destroys Freddie's home with an ax. Clues abound, with those needed to solve the mystery satisfyingly mixed in with enough red herrings to keep readers happily guessing. Additional plot enrichment is provided by weaving in the latest in computer technology and epidemiology. A dependable writer will satisfy his YA fans once again.
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Delightful...fast pased,tense...resourceful, transporting racehorses
to the course is big business for x-jockey Freddie Croft. he runs his fleet of vans and their drivers ith tight reins,stricct security and everything on the up & up. But one driver breaks a cardinal rule - never pick up a hitchhiker - an the results are fatal...for the hitchhiker. A corpse is not only bad for business its bad for FReddie's long termsurvival, one corpse leads to number two--and to strange nighttime stalkers and unseen sonspirators who are weaving a web of deceit & danger that Freddie might never escape...
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I always enjoy a Dick Francis book. As I no longer have the copy and read it a while ago, I don't remember any details. However, I've never read one I didn't like.
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Dick Francis never disappoints!!