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Banker

By: Dick Francis
Narrated by: Tony Britton
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Summary

Tim Ekaterin's merchant bank, like all banks, only invests in sure things. Now he's about to involve it in ₤5 million of prime horseflesh, a stallion called Sandcastle. Top breeders reckon it's the safest bet in racing. But racing doesn't just attract the money men of the city. It's riddled with all kinds of dubious dealmakers. People who don't think twice about breaking bones. People to whom no bet is safe until it's paid in blood, Ekaterin's blood.

©1982 Dick Francis (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

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Excellent

Typical Dick Francis well written and interesting the story keeps moving and maintains interest. Anyone who likes previous books will thoroughly enjoy this.

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Deeply moving, intelligent book

I love Dick Francis' books. This is one of my most favourite. Painfully moving in parts, and haunting once read. The uncompromising nature of greed.

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When bankers used to be the good guys

Written long before lax regulations and greed put bankers beyond the pale, this is an interesting tale of a stud farm whose future hangs on the purchase of a £5m horse to improve the quality of its foals. But as usual dark deeds are afoot to scupper their new acquisition, and it's up to our likeable hero banker to delve the depths and sort it out. It plods along at a reasonable pace, though after the initial action at Ascot there are no helter-skelter racing scenes nor much scent of the turf, so it lacks the spills and thrills of other Francis novels. It's a fairly strong detective story with numerous strands that are neatly tied up by the end.

Like many of these old Dick Francis/Tony Britton recordings, the overall sound quality drags this title down into 3* territory. It's just about tolerable as there's no obvious background hiss (unlike 'Straight'), but the sound leaps around all over the place with blurry, muddied sections, some over-fast bits, and a general 'copied from worn audiotapes' nastiness. A pity.

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Excellent listening as expected

The combination of a Dick Francis story read by Tony Britton always results in a superb audiobook.
Iffy sound quality a couple of times but definitely did not spoil my enjoyment. The recordings are getting on a bit after all.

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A pharmacist t solve the case

Fantastic story great twists and detailed facts
And fantastic characters and a pharmacist to help solve the case

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alot of background noise

book was excellent as usual and well read, but there is constand background noise all the way through

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great story and great story telling .

great story as ever one of the masters best storys,but let down by back ground sound on the recording

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one of his best books

loved every minute of this book very well read.. definitely worth listening to..well done. thank you

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Wonderful

I can listen endlessly to this. The narrator is soothing and the storyline great. Bliss

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An amazing Story.

Possibly one of the best Francis novels. The audio version by Tony Britain brings life to the book.

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