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Dick Francis brings back Sid Halley, champion jockey-turned-PI of his earlier novels Whip Hand and Odds Against, in this troubling story. Ellis Quint has everything he could want: fame, youth, money, good looks, and talent. What Sid has to figure out is why his friend Ellis also has a streak of sadism that leads him to cut off horses' hooves in the dead of night. Sid's search for the truth leads him into the lowest depths of human nature. Winner of the Edgar Award for best mystery novel. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Reviews (2) and details of Come to Grief

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This is a nice conspiracy thriller, with CIA plots gone horribly wrong, political office games that leave real bodies lying around, and cops falsely accused of everything from murder to jaywalking. The plot twists are a little convoluted for my taste (as a whodunnit, the book doesn't even pretend to play fair), but it's a good read nonetheless. What gets it into this series, of course, is the use of technology. The use of computers is fairly central to the plot, though it isn't absolutely necessary. Computers are used as a means of communications, and could have been replaced by something else. Refreshingly, the author seems to actually know how to use a computer. The uses are realistic, and the references make sense. The materia... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Reviews (1) and details of Digger

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"Delightful...A tense, fast-paced new mystery...boasting a resolute, resourceful, and modest hero and lots of racetrack characters and color."SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLETransporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. But when a driver breaks a cardinal rule and picks up a hitchhiker, the results are fatal...for the hitchhiker. Freddie knows that a corpse is bad for business, especially when its trail leads to corpse number two --- and to strange nighttime stalkers and unseen conspirators who are weaving a web of deceit and danger that Freddie might never escape....
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The back cover suggests that this book is listed as a horror title. Like all really good fiction, it defies categorization, but I would have suggested that "thriller" or "mystery" might have been closer to the mark. It does have many features common to horror works, but without the plodding certainty of something nasty waiting to jump out at you that is typical of the genre. We have, first of all, amnesia. Not the overused "where am I, who are you, who am I?" type, but a more realistic loss of a few months. Frightening enough, in this case, since the protagonist seems to have gotten himself married in a real awful hurry, and not to his prior lover. And appears to have become involved in some really inexplicable stuff. There is the i... Rest of this review on the detail page
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Viruses, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality are the mainstays of the thriller world, where it touches on technology at all. This book uses, and abuses, VR. I am willing to accept high resolution imagery, and short latency times. I am willing to accept that vision, sound, and minor physical sensations can have an impact out of all proportion to reality. (Wanna know how Disney forces you into your seat when you take off on a rocket? The base of the seat sinks. You really feel like you are rising. Maybe more like an elevator than a rocket, but you really seem to move.) I am less willing to accept that this makes a simulation so indistinguishable from reality that you have to ask your wife for a password. I have a hard time ... Rest of this review on the detail page
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