Fun book. Kept me guessing the twists until the very end.

Who in their right mind deliberately flies into the eye of a hurricane?. Obviously, the main character wants to....but finds more confusing danger in the schemes and manipulation of those on the ground.

The title and author of this book caught my eye. I've always liked Dick Francis's mysteries that involve the race track but this story was different. The beginning lured me in with a devastating hurricane approaching and their small plane goes down in Florida, but the middle of the book felt a bit muddled, with weapons grade uranium, tuburcular dissease, I had trouble following the thread at times with this one and I didn't care at all about the mild-mannered progagonist or the villains. This one was a forgetable story.

Too far fetched and sometimes quite boring, which was a surprise for me. I adore Francis! I agree with this reviewer, James Thane:

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3 stars, if that.

Always love Dick Francis but this book is not one of his best, the story is too disjointed and vague. Too many characters that aren't central to the story and nothing really ties together or reaches a satisfactory conclusion.

Dick Francis has plenty better in his collection. I do like the switch of pace with this one only remotely bringing in the race track circuit, but the character I enjoyed the most only had a bit part in this story. The main collection of characters were mostly unredeemable and uninteresting.

Not the best Dick Francis I've read. I read them for the horse encounters, and this one went off the track, looking for hurricanes and evil doings.

Dick Francis without a lot of horses is more interesting to me: not a whit more believable, but entertaining. This is in the "keep throwing yourself into the mouth of danger until you come out holding an answer" school of mystery novel. I did like our hero's grandmother, a lot. I'd read a book about her.

September 22, 2016
Jan 1, 2000

Read many times now, always enjoy the building of expections

At first I thought it is all going to be about horse racing but no. It was about flying , weathermen , physiosiths and spying. Two friends racing through a tornado getting lost on a deserted island and much more. Brilliantly written, good story telling.

Not Francis' usual setting - there were horse racing arenas but only just. The focus was on weather patterns, physics and flight.

An interesting mystery none the less, and I did appreciate the characters!