Reflex
by:
Dick Francis (author)
Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The difference is that Millace is dead – and Nore has discovered his secret: a set of files which would blow the top off the racing world. Hated by a dying grandmother he has never known, and abused by a...
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Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The difference is that Millace is dead – and Nore has discovered his secret: a set of files which would blow the top off the racing world. Hated by a dying grandmother he has never known, and abused by a trainer he knows only too well, Nore is no stranger to shabby morals. And when he begins to decipher the dead man's photographs, he uncovers corruption on a scale he had never imagined...
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780449211731 (0449211738)
Publish date: February 12th 1986
Publisher: Fawcett
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
European Literature,
British Literature,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Animals,
Suspense,
Murder Mystery,
Horses
Life has changed for me enough lately that I can now participate in the book discussion groups at my public library. The book for October is Reflex by Dick Francis and I'm thrilled that it spurred me to a reread of this great mystery. When I began reading mysteries (about 5th grade) I was fortuna...
1 Jan 19851 Jan 199819 Feb 19982 Sep 2016I have two reasons for rereading this book: watching Nore trying to retrace his childhood, and watching him change as an adult. And also this book has the memorable scene of Nore sitting on the stairs in pain, waiting for it to pass. Gripping, and also surpri...