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Summary: Bolt - One of his best!
Review: As all of his stories this one has its ties to the racing world. Former jockey turned detective investigates a series of pony maimings that turns into a series of misadventures that lead to a person you would have never guessed. The media is the media and things go from bad to worse. It all comes out in the end which is one of the reasons Dick Francis is one of my favorites.
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Summary: Dick Francis never fails to draw you in
Review: As all of his stories this one has its ties to the racing world. Former jockey turned detective investigates a series of pony maimings that turns into a series of misadventures that lead to a person you would have never guessed. The media is the media and things go from bad to worse. It all comes out in the end which is one of the reasons Dick Francis is one of my favorites.
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Summary: Bolt
Review: I really did enjoy it - and I own all of Francis's books. They're like old friends to me - I visit all of them about every 5th year. The only disappointment I've ever had with Dick Francis is Shattered - his last novel. It seemed hurried and the characters not as well developed in comparison to his others.
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Summary: Not a good Francis selection
Review: I've read 2 by Francis; Flying Finish was fun but Bolt quite disappointing. This is NOT a mystery--we know throughout who the (one-dimensional) villain is, and the plot is merely waiting for the inevitable to occur. Even the 'surprise ending' does not really add much to any drama.Try another Francis novel.
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Summary: No mystery here -- or so it seems
Review: In Bolt, Dick Francis continues the misadventures of Kit Fielding, jockey and all-round good guy. Francis' heroes are nearly always good and honest and brave, but never boring. They're the sort of men women would love to love and men should want to be like. This time, however, Kit seems on the verge of losing, Danielle, his fiance and the love of his life. As he wrestles with these feelings, he is struck with the murder of the Princess' horses, first one, then two, then one more. Henri Nonterre is out to make the Princess and her husband turn to gun manufacturing, but Kit will do anything in his power to keep that from happening, as long as the family chooses to resist. Meantime, Kit's old enemy, Maynard Allerdeck, looms in the background with renewed malice. What can possibly have increased his hatred for this particular Fielding? Fully occupied in helping the Princess and her family (which includes Danielle)avoid Nonterre's machinations, Kit merely tries to avoid any adverse contact with Maynard. But that may not be possible. In typically honest, straight forward fashion, Kit strives to protect his employers and friends, and the horses he loves so much. In the meantime, he waits for Danielle to make up her mind about whether she wants to spend the rest of her life with him. A first rate story and most pleasant narrator.
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Summary: No mystery here -- or so it seems
Review: In Bolt, Dick Francis continues the misadventures of Kit Fielding, jockey and all-round good guy. Francis' heroes are nearly always good and honest and brave, but never boring. They're the sort of men women would love to love and men should want to be like. This time, however, Kit seems on the verge of losing, Danielle, his fiance and the love of his life. As he wrestles with these feelings, he is struck with the murder of the Princess' horses, first one, then two, then one more. Henri Nonterre is out to make the Princess and her husband turn to gun manufacturing, but Kit will do anything in his power to keep that from happening, as long as the family chooses to resist. Meantime, Kit's old enemy, Maynard Allerdeck, looms in the background with renewed malice. What can possibly have increased his hatred for this particular Fielding? Fully occupied in helping the Princess and her family (which includes Danielle)avoid Nonterre's machinations, Kit merely tries to avoid any adverse contact with Maynard. But that may not be possible. In typically honest, straight forward fashion, Kit strives to protect his employers and friends, and the horses he loves so much. In the meantime, he waits for Danielle to make up her mind about whether she wants to spend the rest of her life with him. A first rate story and most pleasant narrator.
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Summary: good hero, bad "bad guy," justice triumphs
Review: Kit Fielding, scion of an old family, thwarts a fiendish Frenchman who seeks to force the proud but ailing husband of a racehorse owner to trade in guns. Along the way, Kit befriends and bests a prince in a civilized competition for the beautiful Danielle, and finally defeats his hereditary rival, Maynard Allardeck.
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Summary: One of the Best
Review: My grandmother has a collection of condensed books Bolt is in one of these books. Bolt has everything you could ask for in a racehorse, mystery novel. It starts with, of course, interducing the main character who has to find the reasons for the mysterious horse deaths resulting from a 'bolt gun.' You'll never be able to put this book down until you've read it all the way through.
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Summary: This book was really good!
Review: This book was so good I can't even think of words to describe it. The characters were so well developed and the plot was full of intrigue and surprise! It is one of the best! Once you start reading this book, you won't be able to put it down. Some books have a couple spots in them where nothing happens and it is so boring you just want to stop reading it, but this book just has one big thing after another! I would suggest reading this book to anyone who hasn't read it yet! It is so good!
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Summary: REALLY GOOOOD BOOK!!
Review: This was a really good book! It has it all- horses, romance, action, murder, mystery, and a suprising twist at the end that you would never expect!!!!!!
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