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ISBN:	0425203549 (ISBN13: 9780425203545)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Sid Halley #2
Characters:	Sid Halley
Literary Awards:	Edgar Award for Best Novel (1981), CWA Gold Dagger Award for Fiction (1979)

Whip Hand (Sid Halley #2)

Dick Francis

Paperback | Pages: 304 pages

Rating: 4.1 | 5683 Users | 189 Reviews

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Title	:	Whip Hand (Sid Halley #2)
Author	:	Dick Francis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 304 pages
Published	:	June 7th 2005 by G.P. Putnam's Sons (first published January 1st 1969)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Thriller. Crime. Mystery Thriller. Animals. Horses. Suspense

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"Challenging....First class."
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Sid Halley, once a jockey, was now a private invesigator with only one good hand left after a horse fell on the other. His new life, though, could never erase the haunting memories of his past glories. But it was only when the wife of one of England's top trainers came to beg his help in preventing foul play at the race track that Sid Halley began to know what being haunted really was....

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Dick Francis is a sadly-missed favorite author, especially his knack for snappy relevant titles, and fascinating a non-horse reader (me). Hero Sid loses the use of his hand in the series, at least once a villain tortures him in his weakest limb. Ouch. I still get the shivers remembering.

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 directly or indirectly. The heroes aren't always horse jockies, they can be film producers, or involve heroes engaged in peripheral professions that somehow always touch the horse racing world.But more

Listening to this book was like watching the famous race where Francis was riding Devon Loch, leading the pack the whole way, only to have the horse inexplicably fall under him during the run-in to the winning post. Nothing proved to be wrong with the horse after the race, and the fall remains a mystery. This book is like that.Ex-jockey, now detective Sid tries to save his wife from going to jail and find out why a certain trainer's horses all seem to run lacklustre races when they are tipped as

This is my favorite of the Francis novels I've read, and probably the best mystery novel I've read this year.Sid Halley, who retired from racing to become an investigator after losing most of his left hand, is a fantastic lead, with all of the intellect and dry humor of the average Francis hero but a great deal of pathos and insecurity, as well. The supporting characters are also great creations, especially Chico, Halley's partner, and the Admiral, his friend and former father-in-law.This book

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Winning was all. Winning was my function. What I was there for. What I wanted. What I was born for.In the dream, I won the race. The shouting turned to cheering, and the cheering lifted me up on its wings, like a wave. But the winning was all; not the cheering. I woke in the dark, as I often did, at four in the morning.There was silence. No cheering, just silence.I could still feel the way I moved with the horse, the ripple of muscle through both of the striving bodies, uniting in one. I could

The second Sid Halley book, read many years after the first, brilliant book. Retired jockey with an artificial electronic hand, turned private investigator, faces three tough plots at the same time, two of them including physical violence and intimidation.