Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Flying Finish by Dick Francis

Finished on 8/18.

Another main character in need of a new interest in life. Henry Grey is the heir to a title and really doesn't care - about that or much of anything else. He chucks his office job with a bloodstock agency and goes to work as groom for an outfit which transports horses by air.

The one thing that he does care about is flying and he spends his weekends flying light aircraft - and, since he has gotten commercial licenses, running the occasional charter for the owner of the flight school and airport.

That is, flying was all he cared about until he makes a delivery of some horses to Milan.

This is one of his most apt titles yet - at the end, although seriously injured (aren't Francis's heroes always seriously injured?) he must fly a multi-engine transport clear across Europe back to England.

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