Forfeit

James Tyrone is a sports writer for a tabloid paper called The Blaze. It's not the most respectable paper in town, but it pays better than its more prestigious counterparts and Tyrone badly needs the money. Tyrone's principal beat is horseracing and one day after lunch he walks a fellow scribe back......more

I'm not a big horse guy. I like all animals and horses fall into that category, so I can appreciate them from a distance, but I don't have the urge to saddle up. Nor do I have the urge to go to the track every day to watch others saddle up to race. But that's what this book is about: horse racing. Di......more

I enjoyed this thriller with James a racing journalist for the Blaze. It revolves around ante-post favourites where you bet on a horse weeks before a race where the odds can be much better. However, if the horse fails to run then you forfeit your bet and the bookie keeps all the money. James uncover......more

As a long term Dick Francis reader I would like to say what a refreshing departure this book was. I've been used to the hardy resistance displayed by his heroes, but only in a singular, insular way. Here we have a singularly tortured individual, tied, by love, to his crippled wife, tormented by more......more

What is there to say about Dick Francis? As I think about all of his books (yes, this review covers all of his books, and yes I've read them all) I think about a moral ethical hero, steeped in intelligence and goodness embroiled in evil machinations within British horse racing society - either direc......more