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    Iced: A Dick Francis Novel
    Iced: A Dick Francis Novel
    Iced: A Dick Francis Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    Iced: A Dick Francis Novel

    Written by Felix Francis

    Narrated by Martin Jarvis

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    About this audiobook

    In the tradition of Clive Cussler and James Lee Burke, Iced, the latest in Francis’s fictional world, is a heart-pounding thriller that will keep you racing to the next page.

    Seven years ago, Miles Pussett was a steeplechase jockey, loving the rush of the race. But after an unfortunate event, he left horseracing behind and swore he would never return. Now he gets his adrenaline rush from riding headfirst down
    the Cresta Run, a three-quarter-mile Swiss ice chute, reaching speeds of up to eighty miles per hour.

    Finding himself in St. Moritz during the same weekend as White Turf, when highclass horseracing takes place on the frozen lake, he gets talked into helping out with the horses. Against his better judgment, he decides to assist, but things
    aren’t as innocent as they seemed.

    When he discovers something suspicious is going on in the races, something that may have a profound impact on his future, Miles begins a search for answers. But someone is adamant about stopping him—and they’ll go to any length to do it.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateJul 12, 2022
    ISBN9781705071205
    Iced: A Dick Francis Novel
    Author

    Felix Francis

    Felix Francis studied Physics and Electronics at London University and then spent seventeen years teaching Advanced-Level Physics. The younger son of crime writer and Naional Hunt jockey Dick Francis, Felix assisted his father with both the research and writing of his novels in a father-and-son writing partnership. Since Dick's death, Felix has written ten successful novels, the latest being Front Runner.

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    • 4/5
      Well written, good research, a good read
    • 3/5
      OK but not much of a mystery
    • 5/5
      My favorite Felix Francis book so far. I love how it’s two stories going at once.
    • 3/5
      Francis can write thrillers and I dashed quickly through this one. But it was more of a character study than a crime mystery as it was glaringly obvious who the "bad guy" was as soon as the crime is revealed. As story of my life it was OK, as mystery it was failure.
    • 4/5
      I knew almost immediately that Felix Frances has taken over the reins from his father in this series. It is not exactly a "cozy" mystery, but contains more spice and a bit more meanness. I liked the emphasis put on the mental health aspects of participating in high-pressure sports, and the acceptance of one's inability to take care of problems on one's own. Miles Pussett wants to follow his father as a championship racehorse jockey, but things stand in his way from the outset. Once he is unable to pursue the jockey career, he embarks on high-speed toboggan racing in St. Moritz to feed his speed appetite. There is a lot of action, intrigue and character development which I enjoyed.
    • 4/5
      This latest by Felix Francis was an intriguing story about a man named Miles Pussett. It contains a number of flashbacks that talk about his past and the things that made him the man he is now.

      Miles is the son of a famous jockey and had always wanted to follow in his famous father's footsteps. But his father died in a road accident with Miles was twelve leaving his family is some financial dire straits. His mother dies by suicide some five years later. Miles feels a lot of guilt about both events. He was with his father when he died and believes that his father took the brunt of the crash in order to save his son. He feels that he could have saved his mother if he had been paying better attention but conflicts about his future plans had them estranged at the time of her death.

      These two events damage Miles's mental health. It doesn't help that, as a jockey, he faces a lot of other stresses ranging from the obsessive need to lose weight to remain eligible to race and the pressure put on him to win races and the public's written and spoken pressure when he doesn't win.

      These various pressures lead to nightmares, panic attacks, and an overuse of alcohol as an anesthetic. He is lucky to find support from the young nurse trainee he meets when a panic attack leads to hospitalization and from the Sabrina Dickinson who is the wife of his employer racehorse trainer Jerry Dickinson.

      When the story begins, Miles is in St. Moritz taking part in the Cresta run. He's abandoned the entire horseracing industry to preserve his mental health but the speed and danger of racing down an icy course at high speed fills his need for adventure. But St. Moritz is also the site of winter horseracing on ice and Jerry Dickinson is there with a couple of his horses. Miles gets pulled in to help when Dickinson's usual groom breaks an ankle and finds himself pulled into danger again.

      This story was a thriller. Someone does try to murder Miles by dropping a bag of cement onto the Cresta course which could have killed Miles when his sled hit it. He was lucky to escape with a dislocated shoulder and broken collar bone.

      As Miles investigates who might have wanted him dead, he learns some things about his past that explain some things. I didn't feel that the mystery aspect of this story was the strongest part. For me, the crux of the story was about Miles's regaining his mental health and the changes he makes to build a happy life.