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Knock Down
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 6 h et 3 min
- Catégories: Romans policiers et thrillers, Roman policier
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When a sick friend asks Edward Lincoln to investigate the comprehensive failure of a string of racehorses, he agrees to help out. But it is impossible for him to go about the task quietly and unnoticed because he is now a world-class star of action films, in which he always plays the hero. And the apparently easy survey of the string of racehorses blows him through a smokescreen into circumstances, where, to survive, he has to make himself become the man everyone else already thinks he is.
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A beautiful Italian girl driving home in an open top sports car, a little boy playing on a South Coast beach and the senior steward of the Jockey Club on his way to a press reception in Baltimore. One after the other they suffer the same nightmare ordeal - kidnapping. But there is one thing connecting these particular cases. For the Italian girl is a jockey, and the little boy an only son of a racehorse owner.
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When he wakes in a pitch-black room with his hands bound, Roland Britten – accountant and champion steeplechase jockey – knows he’s entered a nightmare of someone else’s making. Wracking his brain to figure out who’s out to get him and why, he comes up empty, but somehow manages a death-defying escape. It isn’t long, though, before he’s recaptured.
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spell binding
- Écrit par JOHN le 2018-07-05
Description
It’s the classic law of the invader. Get to the strongest guy and smash him, then watch the weaker ones fall like ninepins. Which is just what a vicious gang of horse dealers decides to do when their little kickback scam is threatened with a spot of old-fashioned honesty.
But they haven’t reckoned with bloodstock agent Jonah Dereham, a man who belies his quiet exterior with a steely and implacable resolve. They can threaten him, try to burn down his home, even attempt to kill him. But they’ll soon wish they hadn’t.
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- Doug Wilkie
- 2019-04-23
Another Great One
Dick Francis fills my library. His son Felix is just as good as his father.
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- Enilorac
- 2020-10-06
A Knockdown success
A Dick Francis tale is always a good read and well worth the time and Tony Britton makes it all the more worthwhile with his way of reading that is well paced and has all the right emotional impact! This tale is no exception from Dick Francis and like any other in his list always a good one to pick up for a light thriller
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- Stephen C Steffler
- 2017-08-07
Very good... but I had to slow it down
Had to play this one at 0.85 speed cause it felt horribly rushed at the standard speed. Like the narrator was trying to cut the length by talking faster.
That said, one I found a speed that didn't distort the performance it was a lovely listen.
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- Tracey
- 2015-04-24
kickbacks
Would you consider the audio edition of Knock Down to be better than the print version?
haven,t read print version but in audio they are good story,s
What did you like best about this story?
they are a good storyline about the racing and corrupt characters in it
Which character – as performed by Tony Britton – was your favorite?
yes the books by dick francis are very interresting his knowledge about the racing and jumps racing is good making for a fast paced story with plenty of action
Who was the most memorable character of Knock Down and why?
nothing i like the narrator