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Second Wind Hardcover - 1999

by Dick Francis

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  • Hardcover
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[ Edition: first ]. Good Condition. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] Publisher: London: Michael Joseph, 1999 Pub Date: 1/1/1999 Binding: Hardcover Pages: 293
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  • Title Second Wind
  • Author Dick Francis
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: first ]
  • Condition Used - Good Condition
  • Pages 293
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Putnam Publishing Group, New York
  • Date 1999-10-04
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 5448224
  • ISBN 9780399145629 / 0399145621
  • Weight 1.57 lbs (0.71 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.34 x 6.34 x 1.45 in (23.72 x 16.10 x 3.68 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories, Caribbean Area
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99038014
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist, chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle, with bursts of heavier rain and sunshine to follow. His life calm and ordered, his face familiar to every British household, 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 aeroplane as a holiday diversion. By frightening accident, Stuart learns more secrets from the flight than wind speeds – and back home in England he faces threats and danger as deadly as anything that nature can evolve.'Second Wind' is a twisting spiralling hurricane of a thriller that will defy anyone to treat the weather as an everyday topic of conversation.

From the publisher

Dick Francis (pictured with his son Felix Francis) was born in South Wales in 1920. He was a young rider of distinction winning awards and trophies at horse shows throughout the United Kingdom. At the outbreak of World War II he joined the Royal Air Force as a pilot, flying fighter and bomber aircraft including the Spitfire and Lancaster.

He became one of the most successful postwar steeplechase jockeys, winning more than 350 races and riding for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother. After his retirement from the saddle in 1957, he published an autobiography, The Sport of Queens, before going on to write more than forty acclaimed books, including the New York Times bestsellers Even Money and Silks.

A three-time Edgar Award winner, he also received the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association’s Cartier Diamond Dagger, was named Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America, and was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2000. He died in February 2010, at age eighty-nine, and remains among the greatest thriller writers of all time.

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