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Crisis

By: Felix Francis
Narrated by: Martin Jarvis
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Publisher's Summary

New York Times best-selling author Felix Francis returns with his newest edge-of-your-seat horse racing thriller in the Dick Francis tradition.  

Harrison Foster is a lawyer by training but works as a crisis manager for a London firm that specialises in such matters. Summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick Stables slaughters six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favourite for the Derby, Harry (as he is known) finds there is far more to the ‘simple’ fire than initially meets the eye. For a start, human remains are found amongst the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim?  

Harry knows very little about horses, indeed he positively dislikes them, but he is thrust unwillingly into the world of Thoroughbred racing, where the standard of care of the equine stars is far higher than that of the humans who attend to them.   

The Chadwick family are a dysfunctional racing dynasty, with the emphasis being on the nasty. Resentment between the generations is rife, and sibling rivalry bubbles away like volcanic magma beneath a thin crust of respectability.   

Harry represents the Middle Eastern owner of the Derby favourite, and, as he delves deeper into the unanswered questions surrounding the horse’s demise, he ignites a fuse that blows the volcano sky-high, putting him in grave jeopardy. Can Harry solve the riddle before he is overcome by the toxic emissions from the eruption and is bumped off by the fallout?

©2018 Felix Francis (P)2018 Recorded Books

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Insufferable!

I'll admit I only made it just past halfway - and that was because I don't like to give up. Misogynist in it's characterisations, elitist in it's social understanding, dull in it's narrative. Without the repetition, local historical society trivia, endless explanation of racing for beginners and other needless filler, this could have been a short crime story and possibly even entertaining. It wasn't. I'm sure the narrator is a decent person but he managed to make it all sound a little like an afternoon with the headmaster in didactic mode. The only thing I can say is that more of the characters should have died a lot earlier!

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Enjoyable

I enjoyed this book but it 'waffled ' at the end, explanation took too long.

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An enjoyable read for fans and newcomers alike

Another entertaining read for lovers of Francis books. Felix is not quite the master of the genre that his father Dick was but it is nevertheless I well told and well paced narrative, although I did find it just a little predictable.

Written from the perspective of a newcomer to racing the book does spend longer than necessary explaining racing concepts. that may be a little laborious to some readers as it was to me.

Your mileage may vary when it comes to the performance. Although Martin Jarvis is a clear and articulate reader, he does come across as slightly pompous at times and his female voices are sometimes laughable. He seems to reduce every female character to a shallow and naive young woman.

Not the best of the genre, then, but decent enough entertainment.

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A good storyline, not-so-good narrator

All the late Dick Francis and his son, Felix Francis' novels have a certain naivety about them but nevertheless, they are hard to put down once started. Villains tend to be well behaved ('It's a fair cop, gov') and events have a habit of falling into place too conveniently. Having said that I've read (or listened to) all the Francis novels.
Martin Jarvis is not the ideal choice of narrator in this case. While he is an excellent voice-over (and I have several audiobooks for which he is well-suited) his perfect diction doesn't suit the characters, particularly the females, in this story.

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