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Reflex

Dec 4, 2024 2:07 PM

Author:Dick Francis

Reflex

Discover the classic mystery from Dick Francis, one of the greatest thriller writers of all time

'A fast-paced, exciting, gripping thriller' 5***** Reader Review

'One of Dick Francis's best . . . A real page-turner' 5***** Reader Review

'Deeplysatisfying from beginning to end' 5***** Reader Review

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Jockey and amateur photographer Philip Nore knows all too well how it feels to take a tumble from a horse. He also knows what it's like to feel the wrath of furious owners and trainers. You can't always be a winner.

George Millace hated winners. As a photographer he specialized in taking pictures that exposed the failings of riders. But now he's dead - and no one seems very sorry.

But when Millace's home is broken into during his funeral and Nore finds himself helping clear up, he finds something unexpected. Millace had other pictures - ones people will go to desperate lengths to possess.

Now he must find out who wants them - and fast.

Because if George Millace's death was no accident, then his killers are getting closer . . .

Packed with intrigue and hair-raising suspense, Reflex is just one of the many blockbuster thrillers from legendary crime writer Dick Francis.

Praise for Dick Francis:

'As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing' Daily Mirror

'The narrative is brisk and gripping and the background researched with care . . . the entire story is a pleasure to relish' Scotsman

'Dick Francis's fiction has a secret ingredient - his inimitable knack of grabbing the reader's attention on page one and holding it tight until the very end' Sunday Telegraph

'A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever' Sunday Express

'The master of suspense and intrigue' Country Life

'Francis writing at his best' Evening Standard

'Still the master' Racing Post

Reviews

A regular winner . . . as smooth, swift and lean as ever

—— Sunday Express

As a jockey, Dick Francis was unbeatable when he got into his stride. The same is true of his crime writing

—— Daily Mirror

Beukes puts cerebral propositions into breakneck thrillers

—— The Spectator

You can tell Beukes is having an absolute blast putting words on the page. Her fun is evident in the big, bloody action sequences; in the squirmy, almost retro grotesqueness of the dreamworm.

—— The New York Times

Bridge is a step into the offbeat, an imaginative stew of ingredients: neuroscience and parasitology, musical theory and Haitian Voudou.

—— Elle

Complex, challenging, gripping and thought-provoking. A morally thorny tale without clear-cut heroes or villains. Beukes does a skilful job of balancing desperate but very relatable hope.

—— SFX

A blend of sci-fi and thriller . . . I can highly recommend

—— Alison Flood, New Scientist

Lauren Beukes' multiverse is thrilling-balancing madness, horror, and a big, bleeding, beating heart that reminds us that we are all connected in the end

—— Grady Hendrix

I absolutely loved it. This fantastic high-wire act of a novel, accelerating to a heart-stopping climax, is at once a cosmic narrative on a grand scale and a deeply intimate human story. Bravo!

—— Catriona Ward, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last House on Needless Street

Bridge spiders out into alternate universes, alternate selves, yet manages to be very much about us and our fractured now. It's a humane, thought-provoking puzzle box, and a wildly entertaining novel

—— Paul Tremblay, bestselling author of The Cabin at the End of the World and The Pallbearers Club

Vast in scope and heart, Bridge is both a thrilling exploration of the known universe and an intimate portrayal of a daughter's yearning for her mother. Lauren Beukes has crafted a suspenseful, deeply immersive odyssey that will make you consider the alternate possibilities inside us all. A perfect summer read.

—— Katie Gutierrez, author of More Than You'll Ever Know

Lauren Beukes takes a story filled with psychedelic drugs, parallel worlds, and neuroscience and makes it also about a complex mother-daughter relationship, full of darkness, light, and longing. This is fun and insane and very moving

—— Mariana Enriquez, author of Our Share of Night

What if our dreams are twisted-up memories? What if the Mandela Effect isn't an effect at all? Somewhere between The Lathe of Heaven and Everything Everywhere All at Once is Lauren Beukes' Bridge: it's not just reality that's multifold, it's identity. Bridge challenges our sense of reality, chips away at our conception of the self, and shoves us down a slide of our own paranoia. But, it's Lauren Beukes-this is what she does, isn't it?

—— Stephen Graham Jones, New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians

Thrilling, complex, and pulse-pounding. Beukes handles the balance between action and emotion brilliantly, this is speculative fiction of the highest calibre

—— Big Issue

Praise for Lauren Beukes

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A stand-out chase thriller. How can you not fall in love with this book?

—— Stephen King

A major, major talent

—— George RR Martin

Very, very good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished

—— William Gibson

A powerful thriller - imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading

—— The Times

Dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning ... it shines

—— Matt Haig

Powerful and intelligent

—— Guardian

A ripping tale that neither shies away from big questions nor interesting answers

—— New Scientist

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