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The Edge
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 11 h et 21 min
- Catégories: Romans policiers et thrillers, Thrillers et romans à suspense
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Longshot
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 11 h et 1 min
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John Kendall knows how to survive. He's written six handbooks on the subject. Now he wants to become a novelist, preferably without starving to death. But when cold and hunger set in, Kendall impulsively accepts an unlikely job. He is to research and write a biography of Tremayne Vickers, a famous racehorse trainer. Staying at Vickers' home in rural Berkshire, Kendall soon learns to like his host and friends, learns to ride racehorses, learns about murderers ...
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Good!
- Écrit par mcgr le 2020-04-15
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Break In
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 9 h et 33 min
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Family ties mean trouble, but when jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister and her husband, Bobby Allardeck, even death threatens. Putting behind him an age old feud, Kit tries to find out who is behind a vicious newspaper campaign which is jeopardising Bobby's career as a racehorse trainer. Combining his investigations with riding winners he makes some startling discoveries.
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Comeback
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office. Instead he found himself in the village of his childhood, at the service of a veterinary surgeon whose operating theater was rapidly acquiring an unwanted reputation as an abattoir. The sudden unexplained death of a string of valuable racehorses from one small area in Gloucestershire was a mystery the police couldn't solve. But Darwin was local. He remembered people and what was at stake. And now he knew enough to get himself killed.
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Bolt
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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When Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey, finds out that his chief patron, Princess Casilia, is facing an increasingly serious threat, he goes unhesitatingly to her aid. Neither realises that his instinctive support is the first step towards a frightening battle involving violent risk, with the honour of the princess's family as the prize and Kit's own destruction as the forfeit.
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Kit Fielding Book 2 : Brilliant "Bolt"
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2020-12-24
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Dead Heat
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Felix Francis, Tony Britton
- Durée: 11 h et 17 min
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The night before the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a black-tie gala dinner, cooked by Max Moreton. However, Max's food is soon suspected of putting 24 guests in hospital with food poisoning.
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Driving Force
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Simon Prebble
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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A dead hitchhiker, empty canisters found at the bottom of several trucks, and the murder of a harmless mechanic are the bizarre events that lead ex-jockey Freddie Croft to suspect that his transport company, Driving Force, is involved in drug smuggling, or something far worse.
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Longshot
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 11 h et 1 min
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Histoire
John Kendall knows how to survive. He's written six handbooks on the subject. Now he wants to become a novelist, preferably without starving to death. But when cold and hunger set in, Kendall impulsively accepts an unlikely job. He is to research and write a biography of Tremayne Vickers, a famous racehorse trainer. Staying at Vickers' home in rural Berkshire, Kendall soon learns to like his host and friends, learns to ride racehorses, learns about murderers ...
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Good!
- Écrit par mcgr le 2020-04-15
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Break In
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 9 h et 33 min
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Histoire
Family ties mean trouble, but when jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister and her husband, Bobby Allardeck, even death threatens. Putting behind him an age old feud, Kit tries to find out who is behind a vicious newspaper campaign which is jeopardising Bobby's career as a racehorse trainer. Combining his investigations with riding winners he makes some startling discoveries.
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Comeback
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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Peter Darwin was hoping for some quiet leave from the Foreign Office. Instead he found himself in the village of his childhood, at the service of a veterinary surgeon whose operating theater was rapidly acquiring an unwanted reputation as an abattoir. The sudden unexplained death of a string of valuable racehorses from one small area in Gloucestershire was a mystery the police couldn't solve. But Darwin was local. He remembered people and what was at stake. And now he knew enough to get himself killed.
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Bolt
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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When Kit Fielding, champion steeplechase jockey, finds out that his chief patron, Princess Casilia, is facing an increasingly serious threat, he goes unhesitatingly to her aid. Neither realises that his instinctive support is the first step towards a frightening battle involving violent risk, with the honour of the princess's family as the prize and Kit's own destruction as the forfeit.
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Kit Fielding Book 2 : Brilliant "Bolt"
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Dead Heat
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Felix Francis, Tony Britton
- Durée: 11 h et 17 min
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The night before the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket sees the great and the good of the horse-racing community gathered for a black-tie gala dinner, cooked by Max Moreton. However, Max's food is soon suspected of putting 24 guests in hospital with food poisoning.
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Driving Force
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Simon Prebble
- Durée: 10 h et 29 min
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A dead hitchhiker, empty canisters found at the bottom of several trucks, and the murder of a harmless mechanic are the bizarre events that lead ex-jockey Freddie Croft to suspect that his transport company, Driving Force, is involved in drug smuggling, or something far worse.
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Shattered
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 8 h et 25 min
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When jockey Martin Stukely dies following a fall in a steeplechase at Cheltenham races, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. Gerard Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim for his work.
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Straight
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 51 min
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Derek Franklin is an injured jockey. The last fence at Cheltenham has left him on crutches. But his brother’s death means even bigger trouble. He inherits a jewellery business, a mistress – and some very shady business associates. Franklin likes to play things straight. But with £1.5 million in diamonds gone missing, he finds honesty can be a deadly virtue.
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Proof
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 9 h et 55 min
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At an annual party to celebrate the success of the racing season, everything seemed to be running well to form, including the need for more champagne. Then a runaway horsebox ploughed into the marquee. A witness to the terrible death and destruction, wine merchant Tony Beach knows it is just one of those tragic accidents. But when his expert advice is called into play over sub-standard alcohol in a local night club, connections start to click, and another person dies, horribly.
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Decider
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 7 min
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Free choice? There's no such thing, according to Lee Morris. Choice is pre-ordained by your personality. Stratton Park racecourse faces ruin in the hands of a squabbling family. Lee is slowly sucked into the turmoil, unwillingly on the surface but half-understanding the deep compulsions that influence his decisions. One road leads to safety, another to death. How do you know which is which?
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Trial Run
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 7 h et 39 min
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Randall Drew is prevented from carrying on his career in steeplechasing by poor eyesight. Restless and unsure of his future but pursuing an ardent love affair, he does not welcome an invitation to go to Moscow on a delicate investigation, but almost irresistible pressure is brought to bear. A mysterious entity, "Alyosha", is threatening a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games; the candidate may be vulnerable to scandal which could set off intolerable diplomatic conflicts.
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To the Hilt
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Simon Prebble
- Durée: 9 h et 44 min
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Alexander Kinloch is definitely the black sheep of his noble family, choosing the precarious life of a painter over a lucrative job in his stepfather’s brewery. But when a trusted assistant disappears with millions of pounds, Alexander is reluctantly thrust into a foreign world of bankers and auditors. Brutal thugs and jealous relatives stand in his way as he labors to save the business and protect the family treasures. In the face of adversity, Alexander must defend himself and his family’s honor to the hilt.
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Hot Money
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 55 min
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Malcolm Pembroke never expected to make a million pounds without making enemies. Nor did he expect his latest wife to be brutally murdered. All the clues suggest the killer comes from close to home, but after five marriages and nine children, that still leaves the field wide open. When he find his own life in danger, Pembroke entrusts his safety to his estranged son, Ian, an amateur jockey; and through him discovers a compulsive new outlet for his financial expertise.
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Dick Francis' Refusal
- Auteur(s): Felix Francis
- Narrateur(s): Martin Jarvis
- Durée: 9 h et 44 min
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Six years ago, investigator Sid Halley retired for good. He'd been harassed, beaten, shot, even lost a hand to his investigating business, and enough was enough. For the sake of his wife and new daughter he gave up that life of danger and uncertainty, and he thought nothing would ever lure him back into the game. He thought wrong. Sir Richard Stewart, chairman of the racing authority, begs Sid to investigate a series of dodgy races. Sid adamantly refuses, but the following day, Sir Richard is found dead under suspicious circumstances. And then a man with an Irish accent contacts Sid, telling him to deliver a whitewashed report about the suspected race-fixing...or else.
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Dick Francis's Gamble
- Auteur(s): Felix Francis
- Narrateur(s): John Keating
- Durée: 10 h et 41 min
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Felix Francis co-wrote several horse racing mysteries with his late father Dick Francis before the legendary author passed away in 2010. Taking up the reins for his first solo effort, Felix delivers a captivating tale that franchise fans will thoroughly enjoy. Former jockey Nicholas “Foxy” Foxton is at the track one day when he witnesses the execution-style killing of his friend Herb Novak. Worried he might be next, Foxy wonders if there was a dark side to Herb he didn’t know about.
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Second Wind
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 9 h et 3 min
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Perry Stuart is a TV meteorologist who routinely works before the cameras. His life calm and ordered, his face familiar to every British household, Stuart's profound weather knowledge and accuracy have given him high status among forecasters, but no physical baptism by storm. Not, that is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane.
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High Stakes
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Geoffrey Howard
- Durée: 5 h et 47 min
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Steven Scott is relatively new to horses. A successful, wealthy inventor, he takes up horse racing as a hobby - a hobby that soon brings him winner after winner under the inspired guidance of his trainer, Jody Leeds. Currently both their reputations are wrapped up in a beautiful black hurdler named Energise. But just when Steven is winning at both women and horses, he discovers deceit in his own stables. Termination of the troublemaker marks Steven for his own termination - and much sooner than he can imagine...
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Excellent
- Écrit par Clifford Reynolds le 2018-05-03
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Reflex
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 9 h et 39 min
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Philip Nore is nearing the end as a jockey. George Millace is finished in photography. The differnce is, Millace is dead, and Nore has discovered his secret: a set of files which would blow the top off the racing world. Hated by a dying grandmother he has never known and abused by a trainer he knows only too well, Nore is no stranger to shabby morals. And when he begins to decipher the dead man's photographs, he uncovers corruption on a scale he had never imagined.
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spell binding
- Écrit par JOHN le 2018-07-05
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- Jon Dickinson
- 2020-11-03
audio issues p
as this is a Dick Francis novel, it is entertaining from start to finish. however my only complaints, are with the audio itself. it sounds like it was transferred from tape to digital and the tape wasn't in very good shape. the narrator did a good job however his Canadian accent was off by at least 40 decades. all in all, a great listen.
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- H. Anthony
- 2008-06-13
Dick Does It Again
I will count this as one of my favourite Dick
Francis books. It has everything you expect from him; humour, crime, a hint of romance, a history on rail travel, and all done in an extremely entertaining way. His research is extensive, so I trust everything he writes in relation to the racing industry in Canada, the travel industry, and Canadian Rail. Bravo Mr. Francis.
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- Lissa
- 2017-05-12
Good fun read...takes place partially in Canada!
What did you love best about The Edge?
Dick Francis stories always entertain me. Mystery surrounding horses make for a good read for a horse lover. I particularly enjoyed the train mystery portion of the story, and that the train ride takes place in Canada. The only small and silly issue I had was the VIA Rail pronounced as individual letters instead of 'via' the word, which is how us Canadians pronounce it.
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- Steve Dalby
- 2018-11-03
Story is great compared to the production
I have ready all the Dick Francis novels and the story in audible format was great. But the production was disappointing with some sound problems that distracted. In addition Tony Britain has a great voice but it was noticeable the change in tone from chapter to chapter. Not a bad sook and story, but be prepared for a lack of smoothness I the production. Steve
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- Trish
- 2018-04-15
Another winner
Yet another riveting plot by Dick Francis and an impeccable performance by Britton. This is one of my favourites.
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- Jo
- 2012-10-29
Easy listen that pulls you in.
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
The narrator was easy to listen to and added just enough vocal changes to create charater differentiation and interest. I've read Dick Francis before and once again he showed he was the master of this particular genre. Fastpaced and good twists and turns that keep you guessing and wanting to find out how things end. Worth a listen particularly on those long plane flights.
What was one of the most memorable moments of The Edge?
Hard to pick one. That's a Dick Francis skill. He takes you on a roller coaster ride from one crisis to the next.
Which character – as performed by Tony Britton – was your favorite?
Main character.
If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
Train track to horse track the race to save lives is on.
Any additional comments?
No.