Silks

Vashti said A surprise beginning. The surprise is that this book begins at page 17! Yes indeed, the first sixteen pages are missing. Sat down to have a quiet long-anticipated read for an hour and am confronted with a mutilated book. I'm still in shock.. "It's just not the same" according to Amazon Customer. I have loved Dick Francis' novels all my life, and and I had high hopes for the novels co-written by his son. Unfortunately, I was just not as in love with them. The spark that infused the books written by Dick Francis with the help of his wife Mary (or vice-versa, depending on who you ask) is missing in this novel. It's not a BAD book, but the characters are not as charming, and the subtle humor that so enlivened . Wearing the Silks Silks, by author Dick Francis and his son, Felix, is a heart-pounding and hoof-pounding novel that I found to be a page-turner during the first third of the book and the last third. The middle was a bit slow, but is probably more true to a real situation than if the entire book had been the thrill-a-minute that high profile legal cases are often portrayed to be in movies and television. In the beginning the reader

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. Soon after London barrister Geoffrey Mason, an amateur jockey by avocation, starts receiving a series of threatening messages from a former client, Julian Trent, whose conviction for assault was overturned on appeal, Mason reluctantly accepts the defense of a jockey, Steve Mitchell, accused of the pitch-fork murder of fellow rider Scot Barlow at a steeplechase event. Mitchell and Barlow had fallen out over Barlow's sister, a vet and Mitchell's former girlfriend, who took her own life just a short while before. (Sept.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. The solid writing and engaging lead will carry readers along at a brisk pace, though some may find the dramatic courtroom revelation of the murderer overly theatrical. All rights reserved. When unknown parties order Mason to lose the case, he must balance his professional ethics and his sense of self-preservation. From Publishers Weekly After collaborating on Dead