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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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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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- 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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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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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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Crossfire
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis, Felix Francis
- Narrateur(s): Martin Jarvis
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
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Histoire
Captain Thomas Forsyth’s second tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he’s badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Tom’s world is torn apart by the injury – the Army is his life. The thought of never rejoining his regiment is a terrifying prospect and one that he is not willing to entertain. Tom returns to Lambourn, to his childhood home, where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the ‘First Lady’ of racing.
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Another Great Francis Novel
- Écrit par Doug Wilkie le 2019-04-20
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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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Comeback
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 31 min
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Histoire
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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Proof
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 9 h et 55 min
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Histoire
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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Bolt
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 8 h et 45 min
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Histoire
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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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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Crossfire
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis, Felix Francis
- Narrateur(s): Martin Jarvis
- Durée: 10 h et 2 min
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Captain Thomas Forsyth’s second tour of Afghanistan is cut brutally short when he’s badly wounded by a roadside bomb. Tom’s world is torn apart by the injury – the Army is his life. The thought of never rejoining his regiment is a terrifying prospect and one that he is not willing to entertain. Tom returns to Lambourn, to his childhood home, where his mother is a racehorse trainer and the ‘First Lady’ of racing.
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Another Great Francis Novel
- Écrit par Doug Wilkie le 2019-04-20
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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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To the Hilt
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 21 min
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Alexander Kinloch, artist, has worked out a good pattern for his life. His home is a small bothy on a remote mountain in Scotland; he paints on commission, from which he derives both pleasure and a decent income; he lives alone and likes it. One day, however, Alexander's peace is violently shattered when he returns home to find a group of strangers waiting for him. Afer a scuffle, he is left for dead with only the wind and the words "Where is it?" ringing in his ears.
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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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Knock Down
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 6 h et 3 min
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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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Another Great One
- Écrit par Doug Wilkie le 2019-04-23
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Banker
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 42 min
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Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure things. Now he's about to involve it in ₤5 million of prime horseflesh, a stallion called Sandcastle. Top breeders reckon it's the safest bet in racing. But racing doesn't just attract the money men of the city. It's riddled with all kinds of dubious dealmakers. People who don't think twice about breaking bones. People to whom no bet is safe until it's paid in blood, Ekaterin's blood.
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incredible
- Écrit par Ted le 2021-02-25
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Crisis
- Auteur(s): Felix Francis
- Narrateur(s): Martin Jarvis
- Durée: 10 h et 35 min
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Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a London firm, is summoned to Newmarket after a fire in the Chadwick stables kills six very valuable horses, including the short-priced favorite for the Derby. There is far more to the "simple" fire than initially meets the eye...for a start, human remains are found among the equestrian ones in the burnt-out shell. All the stable staff are accounted for, so who is the mystery victim?
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The Danger
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 9 h et 55 min
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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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Favourite Dick Francis Story
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2019-05-30
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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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Under Orders
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 10 h et 5 min
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It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles Sid Halley. He knows the perils of racing all too well, but in his day, jockeys didn't reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest.
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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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Risk
- Auteur(s): Dick Francis
- Narrateur(s): Tony Britton
- Durée: 7 h et 25 min
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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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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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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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- 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.