Shattered

"If you want to cover the pale plain walls with brightly patterned paper, go ahead," I said. Still mourning Martin, Gerard is savagely beaten, his workshop ransacked, and his life threatened by a gang of thugs. And, a few pages later, The speed of development of strong feeling for one another didn't seem to me to be shocking but natural, and if I thought about the future it unequivocally included Catherine Dodd. After 41 novels, most writers run out of energy before the final gallop. Francis's protagonists may be accidental heroes, but they're not antiheroes; they're usually eminently decent, likable men, and their sen

Logan doesn't…but it's a close-run thing.. The final race to the tape throws more hazards in Logan's way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined.Glass shatters. 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 in

C. Daniel McClean said When the glass shattered, the hero won.. An excellent story and very well told by a person who, when much younger, was a fighter pilot fighting the Battle of Britain with the RAF. Following the war, he was a steeplechase Jockey, riding horses belonging to the Queen Mother. He was a champion jockey on several occasions. When he became "too old" for jump racing, he started w. Fragility and Beauty This has always been a favorite among his novels because of the glass shop and "fragility" of character and " transparency" evident in the racing world once one learns how to see what goes on behind the scenes. Logan is the typical hero ( typical of a Francis hero) in that he is calm, sensible, sensitive , and effectively deals with. "Not His Best Work" according to M. Hummel. To start, I should say that I've been reading Dick Francis for twenty-five years, give or take a couple. I think I've read each and every one of his forty or so books, and have read most two or three times.Francis started out writing strictly horsey mysteries--jockeys, trainers, stablehands, owners, then moved out further and furthe