Second Wind - Hardcover

Francis, Dick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399145621 ISBN 13: 9780399145629

Verlag: Putnam Pub Group, 1999

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A hurricane-chasing trip to the Caribbean spells danger for English meteorologist Perry Stuart as a terrifying accident during his holiday excursion reveals deadly secrets that could get him killed. 300,000 first printing.

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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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Putnam Pub Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0399145621
• ISBN 13: 9780399145629
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 293
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