Twice shy

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5 stars (1 review)

Young physicist Jonathan Derry is given some musical tapes by a friend. But the tapes are really an elaborate computerized horse betting system that can make the owner a rich man -- or a dead one. Once again, high-speed thriller-master Dick Francis weaves a constantly twisting plot, a wicked villain, non-stop action, and an explosive showdown in a superb book that races to the finish line, leaving you breathless for more.

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reviewed Twice shy by Francis, Dick.

A different structure

5 stars

Dick has managed to craft two stories over two different time lines that are intertwined in multiple ways. The stories are distinctive and connected at the same time, quite a neat trick. A pity the computer stuff didn't age well, Dick was not very good at predicting how personal computers would go over an 18 year period - but then again not many were able to do that.

Subjects

  • Horse racing
  • Fiction
  • Large type books
  • Derry, jonathan (fictitious character), fiction
  • England, fiction
  • Scientists, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Gambling systems