Bolt

Name: Bolt
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Dick Francis
ISBN: 9781461810384

Author: Dick Francis

Series: Kit Fielding #2

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 8 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/29/2011

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective

Synopsis

The privileged world of horse racing, filled with sleek thoroughbreds, burnished
leather, and the silken sheen of jockeys’ colors, is a wonderful place to spend a
few hours. Let bestselling, internationally popular author Dick Francis take you to
the immaculate stables of the de Brescou estate, where dark forces are lurking.
Someone is killing the de Brescou racehorses with a “bolt” gun, shooting them
silently, leaving no clues. Before the noble family, which includes his fiancée, is
torn apart, jockey Kit Fielding must find the assassin. There are higher stakes than
the horses, though. The de Brescous could lose control of their family business as
well.
Bolt spent 13 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. From regal countesses
to dapper racing officials, it puts you in the company of truly intriguing characters.
“The plot races along wonderfully well, right up to a jolting twist at the end.”—
Publishers Weekly

About Dick Francis

Dick Francis is the author of many bestselling mysteries, most recently Shattered. A three-time Edgar Award winner, the Mystery Writers of America named him Grand Master in 1996. He lives in the Caribbean.

Reviews

Goodreads review by James on April 28, 2019

Jockey Kit Fielding returns for a second appearance in this novel from Dick Francis, and he faces all sorts of problems. He's engaged to the love of his life, Danielle, but he fears that she is slipping away from him and that she may be losing enthusiasm for the prospect of life as a jockey's wife.......more

Goodreads review by Cherisa on January 05, 2024

Doing what needs to be done and getting others to help clear-eyed and straight. I just love how Francis writes his protagonists. Kit Fielding is one of my favs.......more

Goodreads review by Harry on August 04, 2012

What is there to say about Dick Francis? As I think about all of his books (yes, this review covers all of his books, and yes I've read them all) I think about a moral ethical hero, steeped in intelligence and goodness embroiled in evil machinations within British horse racing society - either direc......more

Goodreads review by Lata on January 11, 2023

Have I ever told how much I love Dick Francis and his Heroes? May be over a 100 times? Or more? Review to Come once I stop gushing over Dick Francis's books. OR read the 4 and 5 * reviews, while I go on gushing 😊......more

Goodreads review by E.P. on December 25, 2017

"Bolt" is a bit darker than its predecessor "Break In," dealing as it does with arms trading and the murder of horses. While "Break In," for all its villainy, was at its core a fairly lighthearted thing, "Bolt" takes the same characters and puts them in danger of losing their actual lives, not just......more