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Bolt
Written by Dick Francis
Narrated by Simon Prebble
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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About this audiobook
The privileged world of horse racing, filled with sleek thoroughbreds, burnished leather, and the silken sheen of jockeys' colors, is a wonderful place to spend a few hours. Let best-selling, internationally-popular author Dick Francis take you to the immaculate stables of the de Brescou estate, where dark forces are lurking. Someone is killing the de Brescou racehorses with a "bolt" gun, shooting them silently, leaving no clues. Before the noble family, which includes his fiancEe, is torn apart, jockey Kit Fielding must find the assassin. There are higher stakes than the horses, though. The de Brescous could lose control of their family business as well. Bolt spent 13 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list. From regal countesses to dapper racing officials, it puts you in the company of truly intriguing characters. The impeccable pacing of this mystery, enchanced by Simon Prebble's assured narration, is sure to keep you on the alert each step of the way.
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Reviews for Bolt
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was yet another Dick Francis masterpiece! As usual, superb narration by Simon Prebble. Francis at his best!!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another very enjoyable read by Dick Francis. I am definitely a fan of this author and I really like his heroes who are always intelligent and resourceful. However, I was disturbed by the cruel, cold-blooded murders of four beautiful race horses as a means for revenge.Otherwise, "Bolt "was my favourite so far although I didn't realise Kit Fielding has his own series.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A very good novel. explains a lot about racing. I had no idea a bolt was the older version of a human gun to kill horses... It had me guessing until the end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Although jockey Kit Fielding rides for a number of owners, Princess Casilia is clearly his favorite. When a menacing stranger threatens the princess and her invalid husband, Kit steps in to help. He’ll have to be on high alert to prevent injury to the princess’s loved ones while he comes up with a plan to put and end to the threat once and for all. It seems there is nothing that the evil man won’t do to terrorize the princess and her family, even to the point of killing her beloved racehorses (which are also very much loved by their rider, Kit). Kit also has to mind his P’s and Q’s around steward Maynard Allardeck, who can’t let go of the ancient blood feud between the Fieldings and the Allardecks. Meanwhile, Kit fears that he is losing the affection of his fiancee, the princess’s niece by marriage, Danielle, to a sophisticated rival, who is also the princess’s nephew.This is a rare sequel in Dick Francis’s body of work. It reads as the page-turner I’ve come to expect from Francis. Although it was lovely to visit Kit’s world one more time, this book wasn’t quite as satisfactory as its predecessor. The villain’s cartoonish speech and actions stretches the bounds of credibility. I like the fact that Kit suffers less from injuries and physical violence than many of Francis’s heroes. While all of the Francis heroes I’ve met so far have been clever, Kit manages to prevail solely on the basis of his wit.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A good solid Dick Francis, just not one of my favorites, partly because of the romance subplot, and partly because of the how much the protagonist is able to control so completely, and partly because of the use of an unpleasant character required by the plot.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Late '80s novel in which our telepathic steeplechase jockey hero (Kit Fielding) comes back for more. Again he's laconic, again he's amazingly tough. This time he is slightly less inhumanly forgiving than he was in Break In. The antagonists are just crazy. The technological 1980s detail is fun. England is small, he seems to be able to drive everywhere in just about an hour.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Although the 'formula' is always similar I haven't found a Dick Francis book I didn't like. This one didn't disappoint.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5England, ca 1985.Kit Fielding er steeplechase jockey. Prinsesse Casilia er hans hovedvelynder og da hendes heste en for en bliver dræbt, træder Kit i aktion. Oveni er der en Maynard Allardeck, der er far til Kits svoger og Allardeck slægten har i århundreder været oppe at toppes med Fielding slægten. Kits forlovede, Danielle, er begyndt at se mere og mere til Prins Litsi, hvilket heller ikke hjælper på Kits humør. En træls type, Henri Nanterre, forsøger at overtale Prinsessens mand, Roland de Brescous, til at gå med til at deres fælles selskab skal begynde at producere våben. Da overtalelsen ikke virker, går han over til grovere metoder og slår to af prinsessens heste, Cascade og Cotopaxi, ihjel. Prins Litsi bliver udsat for et mordforsøg og Danielle forsøgt kidnappet. Efter således at have fået fastslået at Henri har fortjent af grovfilen, lader forfatteren Kit få frit løb til at lege hævner. Han får skovlen under Henri, men kommer så til at tænke over at det ikke kan være ham, der har slået hestene ihjel.Hestenes træner opdager Maynard Allardeck i færd med at slå to heste mere ihjel og slår så Maynard ihjel med en boltpistol, men han slipper formentlig helt for straf.Det her er den samme historie, som Dick Francis har fortalt før: En stolt, men fattig person bliver udsat for en urimelighed og hævner sig. Bogen beskriver et vældig klasseopdelt samfund, men også at der måske alligevel er håb.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I enjoyed the continuation of Kit Fielding from Break In. It is never enjoyable to read how cruel humans can be, specially to animals. How a man could be so driven, by hate, to willful kill beautiful creatures such as horses. All because of a feud, between two families, that goes back centuries.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I am always pleased after I finish a Dick Francis novel. Kit Fielding is the leading man Francis loves to give us. He’s charming, unflappable, and a little out of place in his profession, yet isn’t invincible, and isn’t the luckiest in love. We have three storylines here that are woven together expertly and in unexpected ways. Kit is asked by his friend that he rides for, Princess Casilia, to help them fend off an over-exuberant business partner who says he’ll do anything to get what he wants. As if that weren’t enough, a racing rival is out to get him, and he’s pretty sure his fiancé is going to leave him for the Princess’s nephew. Just when we are sure the story is going one way, everything takes a left turn. This is an author that will always be on my to-read list.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stuck without a book at Dad's and turned to this old favorite. It's as engaging as any of Francis's older reads, perhaps because the hero is once again a jockey rather than someone on the periphery of racing. This time champion jockey Kit Fielding, first seen in the equally good Break In, holds off a ruthless French businessman determined to pressure Princess Casilia's husband into unethical business practices and investigates who is killing the Princess's horses while struggling with the possibility of losing his fiance to a prince and dodging the hostility of lifelong enemy Maynard Allerdeck. Action-packed, with Francis's classic stoic, laconic, but sensitive hero.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Another good outing from Dirk. Kit Fielding is once again in trouble. Not his sister, but the owner for whom he mostly rides - the Princess. Her honourable husband's company is being pressured by an unscrupulous partner to diverge into arms manufacturer - not to be considered. there;s good riding, memorable charactisation of life in the upper circles, cunning plots and of course a last gasp action to save the day. Fortunetly the bad guy is a bit thick - direct but with no sublty, however this doesn't spoil what is a light but very entertaining romp around the course.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good book - mystery and horses...works for me. =)
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Kit Fielding #2, the jockey tries to protect his patron Princess Cassilia's husband from a business blackmailer, and to save her horses which are being destroyed by a bolt gun. Very good: interesting characters, disturbing villain, excellent suspense.