Under Orders, Dick Francis
Under Orders, Dick Francis
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Under Orders

Author: Dick Francis

Narrator: Martin Jarvis

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 09/26/2006

Synopsis

Sid knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day jockeys didn't usually cross the finish line with three .38 rounds in the chest-which is how he found Huw Walker, the winner of a coveted race only a few hours earlier. Now Halley's quest for answers will push him to his very limits-both on and off the track.

About The Author

Dick Francis (pictured with his son Felix Francis) was born in South Wales in 1920. He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster.He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks. A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Lucy on 2007-12-22 19:07:05

AS USUAL DICK FRANCIS NEVER LETS HIS READERS DOWN. THE BOOK WAS GOOD FROM START TO FINISH.

Goodreads review by James on May 15, 2021

Over a career that spanned forty-four years, from 1962 to 2006, Dick Francis wrote forty novels as a solo author and four of them featured Sid Halley, a former jockey who had become a private investigator. This is the last of the forty novels and the last to feature Sid Halley, which is, I think, an......more

Goodreads review by Nikki on November 13, 2009

I learned a few weeks ago that Dick Francis had written a fourth Sid Halley novel in 2006. I rushed to the library and found a nice large print version. I am sorry to say that it was not up to the standard set by the earlier three, perhaps because Francis appears to have been writing it either durin......more

Goodreads review by Jay on June 23, 2018

The least of the Halley's I've read, which makes it merely excellent. Francis may not be at his best here, but he's still damn good. Sid Halley was the only Francis protagonist to make it past two books, and really the only one who should have. His other leads are very good, but Halley was the only o......more

Goodreads review by E.P. on November 25, 2017

As one of the last acts in the twilight of his career, Dick Francis took his favorite character, Sid Halley, out for one last race. Things have changed a bit since Sid Halley first appeared, back in 1965. As part of the time warp I mentioned in one of my earlier reviews, Sid has only aged about 10 ye......more

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