Second Wind
What starts off as a boring escapade by two weather forecasters for BBC trying to fly into the eye of Hurricane Odin, turns out to be a story of international nuclear bomb dealings.
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Dick Francis revels in this kind of narrative. He builds it up slowly in his usual inimitable cross humorous style of writing. So when Dr. Perry Stuart, a weather forecaster with BBC gets dumped on a Crux Island due to his plane crashing following the second wind of Hurricane Odin, he discovers secrets unwittingly.
There are an assortment of characters to build the narrative. Oliver Harvey a race horse owner whose filly has a mysterious illness, Belladonna Harvey his daughter who is smitten by Kris Ironside, the co weather forecaster of Perry, Robin Darcy, his wife Evelyn, George Loricroft and his wife Glenda, Michael and Amy Ford who own a vast empire in Cayman Islands.
There is intrigue, suspense, love, danger, attempted murder, suicide, race horse training (favorite topic of Dick Francis), flying planes (another fav of Dick), secret notes, adventure galore in this rip roaring of a novel by Dick Francis. Dick keeps the interest alive through his superb narrative. Goodreads 5/5
