If you were a weatherman, horse or cattle breeder, this will be of more interest to you than me. Still was entertaining with some plot changes that I did not see coming.

Second Wind

I like to Reading boks by Felix Francis. Theis stories are and you have difficulties to stop reading them and put them away.

An oldie I hadn't read before. I always liked his books - people good in one career who suddenly need to apply their knowledge to solve a crime and stay alive. Here, a meteorologist is lost (briefly) in a hurricane and discovers information about people smuggling fissionable materials. Fast-paced but worth going back for a reread to savor the smaller details.

After years of the book sale, I decided to try a Dick Francis book as we always have so many. I enjoyed the book - I would give it a solid 3.5. Lots of interesting information on meteorology as hurricanes play a prominent role in the story.

Every prolific author must have a worst book, and this one is it for Dick Francis. Like all of Francis' books, this one has nice prose, reads quickly, and requires very little from the reader. However, unlike his other books, everything in this book is a little bit too much. The bad guys are over-the-top bad, and we have hurricanes, nuclear bombs, and food poisoning, all in one novel. If you just read everything that Francis writes (as I do), then you should read this. If you've never read Francis before, do not start with this one.

Mushrooms, hurricanes, poisoned horses and strange attempts to uncover a mysterious business. A random assortment of loosely tied together narratives...that just didn’t work. My first Dick Francis, and likely my last.

Dick Francis is one of my go-to authors for when I want to read without having to think too much. Semi-plausible plot, structurally similar, happy ending.

This, however, is easily the worst thing I've ever read from him. Utterly disorganised, entirely implausible, just simply makes no sense.

I quit about 2/3rds of the way through, and for most of that I was just plugging on hoping it would start to make sense at some point.

Perfect example of a book being sold simply because of who wrote it as a cynical example of how valuable a track record is.

Awful.

I have now read several of Dick Francis's books and this is the first one I haven't enjoyed. The plot is nonsense from start to finish and the main protagonists are nearly as implausible as the plot. This is so much worse than any of the other books of his I have read, that it is hard to believe they are written by the same person. Had this been the first Dick Francis book I had read, it would also have been my last.

Quite an interesting plot - flying into the eye of a hurricane!

RDCN. It as an interesting story. Not great

This book had me thinkling "almost" makes one star then more stars. Reading other comments were interesting as others were finding it difficult and a number who like Dick Francis rated this very low. And I can understand why. But the more I thought about this book, the more I see it as really great challenging issues that we are frightened to discuss, then great commentry re flying airplane challenges, covers survical , interesting personalities and ambitions. Why people with plenty of money do destruction things. The story is riveting still and the strange and outrageous scenes makes one think. Could people realy behave this way.... And how could one chacacter be married to someone so opposite ...

There is much more to this book ....

A modern twist: accidentally encountering a ring of go-betweens of bomb-making materials. Two BBC weathermen with a desire to fly through the eye of a hurricane (this just after Harvey wreaked havoc on the Texas gulf two months ago). Only one of the weathermen has a Ph.D in physics and recognized the papers for what they were. And what did this have to do with horse-racing? A perfect place to meet was amid a crowd at the races.