![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He writes pretty much the same character every time, first person male, young, stubborn, honest, honorable, never a whiner, always calm and cool and on occasion astonishingly forgiving. ![]() Part of the greatness of his novels lies in the different worlds he explores in each of them, painting in To The Hilt, photography in Reflex, gemstones in Straight, venture capitalism in Banker, wine in Proof, architecture in Decider. Yeah, he was a jockey and there is always a horse around somewhere, but the books are often only peripherally about racing. Reflex, Straight, Banker, Proof, Decider also wonderful. The creation of the portrait of Zoe Lang is genius-wonderfully descriptive and mesmerizing. Wonderful characters, contained but loving mother Vivienne dithery but honorable step-father Ivan proud, stubborn, hilarious uncle Himself (the earl) viperous but charming step-sister Patsy and her execrable husband Surtees and one of the more capable and most amusing sidekicks I've ever read in the private investigative team of Young and Utley. Painter Alexander Kinloch, nephew of a Scottish earl, is summoned from his aerie in Scotland by his mother to tend to his step-father, whose prosperous brewery has been ripped off to insolvency by its disappeared comptroller. I've been rereading all the Dick Francis on the shelf in the Homer Public Library. ![]()
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