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Laddar... Shattered (urspr publ 2000; utgåvan 2001)av Dick Francis
VerksinformationShattered av Dick Francis (2000)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. glass maker involved in stolen cancer research About Dick Francis you can either say "the books are all the same" or "you get exactly what you expect". There will be a fairly young main character that excel at his occupation. The occupation will always be different and never directly involved in horse racing, but some way still involved in the racing world. The main character will be single but meet a lovely girl somewhere along the trip. The main character will suffer bodily harm. The books are always told from a first person perspective. There will always be detailed technical explanations about the main characters occupation, showing that Dick Francis has done thorough research. It's probably possible to add more similarities with some effort. So I know all this, and still I keep reading his books? Well, they are quite short, quite well written and in general enjoyable. Never a Nobel Prize winner, but he deserves his three stars for this book as well. Shattered is an imaginative but awkward tale published in 2000 by veteran writer Dick Francis at the age of 80. Horse-racing plays only a peripheral role; in fact the protagonist is a professional glass-blower named Gerard Logan. The plot centers around a mysterious videotape passed to Logan by his friend, a jockey (who meets his death in a racing accident in the first few pages of the book). The video is stolen from Gerard that very night and he, as well as a collection of vicious rogues, spend the book searching for it. The rogues are after the tape under the strange misconception that its contents are worth millions of dollars, and they are willing to torture and kill in order to get it. As it turns out, the tape contains The reader learns much information about the procedures of glassblowing (which the author reveals, was gathered by his wife as a long-term collaborator on his novels) -- I found this information both interesting and unexpected. Glassblowing figures in the story's climax in two ways. Reviewers of Shattered at Amazon and Goodreads mostly liked the story. However, some judge it as far from the quality of the author's best work. Below are links to two reviews that I found especially meritorious: https://www.amazon.com/gp/customer-reviews/R1QKB85TDYSDJE/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_tt... https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2439233307?book_show_action=false&from... inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Ingår iÄr avkortad iReader's Digest Condensed Books: Firewall • My Mother's Daughter • Shattered • Silence and Shadows av Reader's Digest Livros Condensados: Contagem Decrescente | Corações Em Silêncio | Explosão de Cristal | Notícias do Lago av Reader's Digest Prestigefyllda urval
When jockey Martin Stukely dies after a fall at Cheltenham, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. Logan is a glassblower on the verge of widespread acclaim. Long accustomed to the frightful dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a glassmaking furnace at never less than 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, Logan is suddenly faced with terrifying threats to his business, his courage, and his life. Believing that the missing video holds the key to a priceless treasure, and wrongly convinced that Logan knows where to find it, criminal forces set out to press him for information he doesn't have. To survive, he realizes that he himself must sort out the truth. The final race to the tape throws more hazards in Logan's way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined. Glass shatters. Logan doesn't. . . but it's a close-run thing. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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