Dick Francis - 40 Audiobooks

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01. Ten pound (10 lb) penalty (1997) | Size: 190 MB | Time: 6h 55m
Book Description:
Benedict Juliard has only one wish: to ride as an amateur jockey in steeplechase races. His father, George Juliard, a rising politician, asks his son to forswear any act that might injure his (George's) hopes for advancement. Benedict agrees lightheartedly – not knowing what lies ahead.Benedict soon becomes the target of vicious attacks from his father's enemies, men who will stop at nothing to derail George's career. Benedict finds treachery and deceit are the least of the problems awaiting him. In horse racing ten-pound is the maximum penalty a thoroughbred can carry. The question is, can Benedict survive the penalties about to be loaded on him?

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02. Banker (1982) | Size: 275 MB | Time: 10h 1m
Book Description:
Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, invests only in sure things. Now he is about to involve it in a Ł5 million stallion. Top breeders reckon it's the safest bet in racing, but racing is riddled with dubious dealmakers - people to whom no bet is safe until it's paid in blood.

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03. Blood sport (1967) | Size: 212 MB | Time: 7h 44m
Book Description:
When English agent Gene Hawkins told his boss he'd forego his vacation to search for millionaire Dave Teller's prized missing stallion, he didn't know his retainer would include the attentions of his boss's beautiful daughter–or Teller's seldom sober wife. Nor did he know that a trail from London to New York to Las Vegas to Califonria would eventually
lead to murder…

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04. Bolt (1986) | Size: 234 MB | Time: 8h 31m
Book Description:
While trying to stop the heinous killing of racehorses, jockey Kit Fielding must deal with his nemesis's plans to knock him off the track-and plant him under it.

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05. Bonecrack (1971) | Size: 174 MB | Time: 6h 33m
Book Description:
Violence suddenly takes the lead in the life of Neil Griffon. First his father, a stable owner, suffers a grisly accident, then Neil is brutally assaulted and abducted. The price for his freedom will mean the betrayal and deception of those who trust Griffon most. But he has no choice: A no-compromise crime czar has made an ultimatum–that his
own eighteen-year old son be hired by Griffon's stables to ride the superstar horse, Archangel, in the Derby. And the young man must be trained to win. Or else….

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06. Break In (1985) | Size: 255 MB | Time: 9h 17m
Book Description:
Family ties mean trouble, chains and fatal obligations. And when steeplechase jockey Kit Fielding comes to the aid of his twin sister and her husband, even death threatens.

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07. Come to grief (1995) | Size: 291 MB | Time: 10h 45m
Description:
By lopping off one of their feet, someone is maiming two-year-old colts, the cream of the future racing crop. When Sid Halley, jockey turned investigator, uncovers the fiend and implicates a pillar of the horse breeding community, the repercussions are horrible.

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08. Comeback (1991) | Size: 225 MB | Time: 8h 12m
Book Description:
Travel writer John Kendall didn't think he was doing anything too out of the ordinary when he tramped off to rural England for an interview with a successful race horse trainer. Soon enough, however, Kendall realizes that completing the book will be tricky at best. In fact, the perils described in his survival manuals pale next to the dangers in rural England….

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09. The Danger (1983) | Size: 272 MB | Time: 9h 54m
Book Description
Alessia Cenci, age 23 and one of the top women jockeys in the world, is kidnapped in Bologna, the latest victim in a series of kidnappings. Top agent in a firm that specializes in kidnap consultations, Andrew Douglas is sent in to negotiate her release.

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10. Dead cert (1962) | Size: 251 MB | Time: 9h 6m
Book Description:
Amateur jockey Alan York wins the steeplechase, but it’s a hollow victory. The champion horse and rider in the lead fails to clear a fence, and the professional jockey dies of his injuries. Curious about how this could happen, Alan begins an investigation that points to corruption transcending the racing circuit.

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11. Decider (1993) | Size: 273 MB | Time: 9h 56m
Description:
Lee Morris, architect, engineer, and part-time builder, is surprised by his special invitation to the shareholders’ meeting at Stratton Park racecourse. Although he inherited his mother’s eight shares in the park, he never really had the desire to be involved in racecourse politics. Now that all sides are involved in a bitter and deadly feud, it may take his influence to swing the vote—he may be the decider.

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12. Driving force (1992) | Size: 289 MB | Time: 10h 32m
Book Description:
Transporting racehorses to the course is big business for ex-jockey Freddie Croft. But when a driver breaks a cardinal rule and picks up a hitchhiker, the results are fatal…for the hitchhiker. Freddie knows that a corpse is bad for business, especially when its trail leads to corpse number two –- and to strange nighttime stalkers and unseen conspirators
who are weaving a web of deceit and danger that Freddie might never escape…

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13. The Edge (1988) | Size: 307 MB | Time: 11h 11m
Book Description:
"BEWARE. MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT WHAT THEY SEEM." So proclaims the ad for the Great Transcontinental Mystery Race, a glittering rail junket that promices not only the opportunity to race a thoroughbred on some of the world's great courses but something more: an intriguing mystery to be enacted on board, which passengers will be invited to solve. But Julius Apollo Filmer, one of the most ruthless operators of the racing underworld, hatches a strange plot of his own. For Tor Kelsey, undercover security agent, a scenario of imaginary mayhem is about to explode into a nightmare of real and bloody murder…

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14. Enquiry (1969) | Size: 174 MB | Time: 6h 21m
Book Description:
A closed-door enquiry has found a jockey guilty of the lowest possible crime–throwing a race for money. His reputation scarred, he's begun his own investigation–but asking the wrong questions just might get him killed.

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15. Field of thirteen (1998) | Size: 196 MB | Time: 9h 32m
Book description:
13 short stories:
* 1. Raid at Kingdom Hill (The rape of Kingdom Hill/The race at Kingdom Hill)
* 2. Dead on red
* 3. Song for Mona
* 4. Bright white star
* 5. Collision course
* 6. Nightmare (Nightmares) Nattmara
* 7. Carrot for a chestnut
* 8. The gift (A day of wine and roses/The big story)
* 9. Spring fever
* 10. Blind chance (Twenty-one good men and true)
* 11. Corkscrew
* 12. The day of the losers
* 13. Haig's death

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16. Flying finish (1966) | Size: 226 MB | Time: 8h 15m
Book Description:
Henry Grey, British aristocrat, part-time jockey and amateur pilot, chucks his boring office job to transport racehorses around Europe by air. Though his family and friends look down on such a lowly job, it gives Henry freedom and satisfaction. Suddenly, though, he faces the challenge of his life when he discovers more than horseflesh in the cargo hold and someone sets out to silence him…forever.

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17. For kicks (1965) | Size: 229 MB | Time: 8h 21m
Book description:
Australian horse breeder Daniel Roke has resisted the exorbitant sum of money offered by a suave Englishman to investigate a scandal involving drugged racehorses. But after another investigator dies mysteriously, Roke agrees to fill his shoes–and learns that men who would give drugs to horses would do much worse to human beings.

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18. Forfeit (1968) | Size: 219 MB | Time: 7h 59m
Book Description:
James Tyron, a racing reporter for a London scandal sheet, knew that fellow writer Bert Chekov was a drunk, but he always thought he was an honest one. But when Bert suddenly died in an "accidental" fall from a window, Tyrone suspeced the clues to his death might be found in some suspicious columns he'd written touting can't lose horses–who myseriously failed to show up on race day. With his own professional and private lives in a chaotic jumble, Tyrone knew he'd have find a way to prove that Chekov was murdered. Be he didn't know the terrifying risk he was unwittingly about to take…

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19. High stakes (1975) | Size: 175 MB | Time: 6h 22m
Book Description:
Steven Scott owns horses but does not know much about them. He sacks his trainer because he suspects underhand dealings going on. He is soon to find out that moneymaking drives some people to manoeuvering and they will go a long way to protect themselves.

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20. Hot money (1987) | Size: 311 MB | Time: 11h 19m
Book Description:
A steeplechase racing crime novel about a man who becomes involved in a horrifying race to find his wife's murderer before the maniac strikes again.

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21. In the frame (1976) | Size: 188 MB | Time: 6h 52m
Book Description:
Charles Todd makes a living as a painter of horses. However someone is making a fortune forging paintings by the masters and then selling them to people who usually end up dead. Charles arrives in Australia to investigate and is immediately on the trail of the fraudsters.

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22. Knockdown (1974) | Size: 174 MB | Time: 6h 20m
Book Description:
For a generous commission, ex-prize-winning jockey Jonah Dereham agrees to bid on a special horse for a wealthy American lady. Unfortunately, for him, the crunch on his skull after the auction is not the last. There's more in store, until he manages to figure out the real high-stakes game bei

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23. Longshot (1990) | Size: 269 MB | Time: 9h 47m
Book Description:
Travel writer John Kendall didn't think he was doing anything too out of the ordinary when he tramped off to rural England for an interview with a successful race horse trainer. Soon enough, however, Kendall realizes that completing the book will be tricky at best. In fact, the perils described in his survival manuals pale next to the dangers in rural England….

http://rapidshare.com/files/28942570/Longshot.part1.rar
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http://rapidshare.com/files/28956594/Longshot.part3.rar


24. Nerve (1964) | Size: 226 MB | Time: 8h 13m
Book Description:
From bestselling author Dick Francis, Nerve is the story of a struggling young jockey–a misfit in a family of accomplished musicians–who discovers that his troubling losing streak is caused not by a lack of skill or confidence, but by something far more sinister.

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25. Odds against (1965) | Size: 190 MB | Time: 6h 56m
Book Description:
After a fall from a racehorse that permanently crippled a hand, Sid Halley joined a detective agency. But it wasn't until some two-bit hoodlum drilled a slug into his side that he was sent out on a case of his own. That was where he met Zanna Martin, a woman who just might make life worth living again. But it was even-money that he'd be killed before she had the chance….

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26. Proof (1984) | Size: 268 MB | Time: 9h 47m
Book Description:
Tony Beach, wine merchant, knows his whisky, so to be asked to give his opinion of one particular bottle seems harmless enough - until he realizes that the bottle contains firewater of a highly-explosive nature.

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27. Rat race (1970) | Size: 160 MB | Time: 5h 50m
Book Description:
Matt Shore is a substitute pilot assigned to fly four racing buffs to the track. They're nervous, but Matt's not. That is, until he manages an emergency landing minutes before the plane explodes. Matt doesn't think anything else can possibly go wrong. Then he finds himself caught up in a rat race of danger that puts him on the wrong side of the odds….

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28. Reflex (1980) | Size: 252 MB | Time: 9h 12m
Book Description:
In this morally complex story, jockey Philip Nore sets out to discover the truth about the murder of track photographer George Millace. Slowly, Nore unravels secrets of corruption, blackmail, and murder, and unwittingly sets himself up as the killer's next target. As in all Dick Francis's books, Reflex emphasizes ethical dilemmas and questions of morality rather than graphic violence or explicit sex scenes. At the same time, it offers the intricate plotting and memorable characters that have made the author both a popular and critical favorite.

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29. Risk (1977) | Size: 182 MB | Time: 6h 39m
Book Description
Roland Britten, accountant and champion steeplechase jockey, wakes in darkness with his hands tied. He has no idea where he is or what is happening, and still he manages an escape – until he is recaptured, and the deadly cat and mouse game proceeds….

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30. Second wind (1999) | Size: 211 MB | Time: 7h 41m
Book Description:
The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves thirty feet high and blow through houses at devastating speeds. For TV meteorologist Perry Stuart, however, such predictions are generally hypothetical, as he chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle, with bursts of heavier rain and sunshine to follow. Stuart's profound weather knowledge and accuracy have given him high status among forecasters, but no physical baptism by storm. Not, that is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small airplane as a holiday diversion. But a frightening accident teaches Stuart more secrets than wind speeds, and back home in England he faces threats and danger as deadly as anything nature can evolve.

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31. Shattered (2000) | Size: 177 MB | Time: 6h 27m
Book Description:
A jockey's death embroils his friend in a perilous search for a stolen videotape that holds the key to a priceless treasure, as criminal forces press him for information he doesn't have. The final race to the tape is a hazardous trip.

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32. Smokescreen (1972) | Size: 167 MB | Time: 6h 05m
Book Description:
Edward Lincoln is a worldwide celebrity who plays detectives on the big screen. But when his godmother asks him to investigate her racehorses in South Africa, he's out of his depth. Soon enough, he's plunged into a plot of gold, greed, and gilded lives that forces him to uncover a killer and give a bravura performance he'll never give again….

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33. Slayride (1973) | Size: 186 MB | Time: 6h 47m
Book Description:
When a champion jockey disappears–right before a big race and the birth of his child–Investigator David Cleveland bets on foul play.

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34. Straight (1989) | Size: 296 MB | Time: 10h 48m
Book Description:
Thirty-four-year-old Derek Franklin, recovering from a race injury, is thrown into familial chaos when his older brother Greville dies from a bizarre, seemingly random accident. With little more to go on than his brother’s expensive toys and a few vague diary entries, Derek becomes more and more convinced that his very straight brother was brought down by some crooked men.

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35. To the hilt (1996) | Size: 258 MB | Time: 9h 25m
Book Description:
From the acclaimed master of mystery and suspense comes the story of a self-imposed outcast who must refresh his detection skills in order to save himself and his family.

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36. Trial run (1978) | Size: 204 MB | Time: 7h 27m
Book Description:
In this thriller, Randall Drew is sent to Moscow to investigate threats against a royally-connected candidate for the Moscow Olympic Games. His brief is vague, the opposition invisible and the stakes appallingly high.

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37. Twice shy (1981) | Size: 272 MB | Time: 9h 54m
Book Description:
Physics teacher Jonathan Derry inherits trouble when his friend Peter gives him three innocuous-looking musical tapes that contain the computer language version of the betting system of a professional gambler named Liam O'Rourke. Unfortunately, Angelo and Harry Gilbert also know about O'Rourke's system and nothing will stop them from getting it. As usual,
Francis will keep listeners enthralled as the menace and destruction associated with this system change the lives of everyone who touches it; from quick-witted physicist Jonathan to his younger, horse-loving brother William, everyone pays a heavy price.

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38. Under orders (1996) | Size: 271 MB | Time: 9h 52m
Book Description
"Sadly, death at the races is not uncommon. However, three in a single afternoon was sufficiently unusual to raise more than one eyebrow.". It's the third death on Cheltenham Gold Cup Day that really troubles super-sleuth Sid Halley. Former champion jockey Halley knows the perils of racing all too well-but in his day, jockeys didn't usually reach the finishing line with three .38 rounds in the chest. But this is precisely how he finds jockey Huw Walker-who, only a few hours earlier, had won the coveted Triumph Hurdle. Just moments before the gruesome discovery, Halley had been called upon by Lord Enstone to make discreet inquiries into why his horses appeared to be on a permanent losing streak. Are races being fixed? Are bookies taking a cut? And if so, are trainers and jockeys playing a dangerous game with stakes far higher than they are realistic?

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39. Whip hand (1979) | Size: 236 MB | Time: 8h 36m
Book Description:
Ex-jockey and private investigator Sid Halley is approached by the wife of an elite racehorse trainer, begging his help in figuring out why her husband's most promising horses have been performing so poorly. At first Halley thinks she's overreacting and the losing streak is just dumb luck. But now he's beginning to think it's something far more dangerous…-

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40. Wild horses (1994) | Size: 280 MB | Time: 10h 12m
Book Description:
Valentine Clark knows a lot of secrets about the horse racing world of Newmarket, England. Now, on his deathbed, the elderly blacksmith reveals the most horrifying secret of all to his young friend, film director Thomas Lyon. On location in Newmarket, where he is shooting a motion picture about the decades-old, unsolved murder of a local horse trainer’s wife, Thomas knows that Valentine’s cryptic revelation holds the solution to the murder—and the identity of the murderer.

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