Twice shy

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Young physicist Jonathan Derry is given some musical tapes by a friend. But the tapes are really an elaborate computerized horse betting system that can make the owner a rich man -- or a dead one. Once again, high-speed thriller-master Dick Francis weaves a constantly twisting plot, a wicked villain, non-stop action, and an explosive showdown in a superb book that races to the finish line, leaving you breathless for more.

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A different structure

Dick has managed to craft two stories over two different time lines that are intertwined in multiple ways. The stories are distinctive and connected at the same time, quite a neat trick. A pity the computer stuff didn't age well, Dick was not very good at predicting how personal computers would go over an 18 year period - but then again not many were able to do that.

Temas

  • Horse racing
  • Fiction
  • Large type books
  • Derry, jonathan (fictitious character), fiction
  • England, fiction
  • Scientists, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general
  • Gambling systems