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Dead Heat | 
 enlarge | Authors: Dick Francis, Felix Francis
Publisher: Pan Books
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 3344
Media: Paperback
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 033045482X
EAN: 9780330454827
ASIN: 033045482X
Publication Date: June 6, 2008
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Condition: Brand new never used in stock in the UK despatched next business day by Royal Mail or Courier
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 Long live Dick Francis and Son! August 14, 2008
C M Silver (Egypt)
This is the gist of Dick Francis + Son's Dead Heat, about Max Moreton, a Gourmet Chef. The recipe: take a fillet of horseracing, add a poisoning, a bombing, polo, drugs, some nasty Russians, some dodgy Americans, and stir vigorously. Add orchestral music, murder, suspense, throw in some famous equine locations: Newmarket, Smiths Lawn, Tattersalls, fine dining, a good pinch of humour, together with a fluent and cohesive writing style.
I picked it off the shelf based on the horsey cover and the name of the author. Championship storyteller was accurate as I enjoyed the story much more than some of his recent novels, but found the picture misleading, as the horseracing genre is not the main focus.
The story is action packed and more graphic and detailed in ways you wish some of his earlier books had been. It does not compete with Jilly Cooper as a sexy horsey romp, or with the horseracing nitty gritty of John Francome's latest offerings, but will appeal to a broader thriller reading public, if the cover doesn't put them off.
Overall, a very enjoyable page turner.
 Very weak August 13, 2008
Catrin Nack (Hamburg Germany)
As an avid fan of Dick Francis I couldn't escape to notice that his books did go somehow downhill since his wife has passed away. This book is co-written by Dick Francis'son, and I am afraid it does not get any better, in fact I feel this is the weakest work yet. The racing conncetion gets more and more unimportant (in fact the restaurant could have been anywhere, and just happens to be in Newmarket), there is no suspense whatsoever, even the dramatic scenes are "created" and fail to get you in a grip. Even the inevitable lovestory, that I used to enjoy in all the other books, is broing and forseeable.
Its a real shame, but its not enough to just have the Dick Francis name on the cover.
Very disappointing July 22, 2008
P & S
I agree with previous reviewers - this book doesn't read like a Dick Francis. The dialogue is simplistic and bland, plot very thin, racing link extremely tenuous. DF's characters have always been very likeable heroes - but this one was just plain boring! The book had none of the charm of most DF novels. The cover was misleading - I was expecting a racing mystery, not cooking calamity! I kept on reading hoping it would get better, but it didn't.
I will re-read the original DF books and forget about Felix Francis.
 Disappointing April 6, 2008
Louise (UK)
I have read most of Dick Francis's books, and enjoyed them. This book, however, was a big disappointment. Under the big "Dick Francis" on the cover of the book, there is a smaller "Felix Francis" and in my opinion it should be the other way round. The book does not read like it has been written by Dick Francis, and I really struggled to finish it. Disappointing.
Now we know who really wrote the books January 11, 2008
Penelope Simpson (dorset, england)
Terrible. Not Dick Francis at all. DF was never big on characterisation but somehow managed, with a delightful economy of words, to convey and impression. Max Moreton is wooden and uninteresting and spends most of the book explaining about basic cooking methods. Other characters are undeveloped, dialogue is poor and the whole book boring. Oh dear. I've been a fan for so many years. Please dear Dick, rest on your laurels and don't destroy our illusions. This is not a good effort.
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