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Second Wind

  • 293 pages · about 5 hours
  • First published 1999
  • 28 editions

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1 About this book

Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist, chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle, with bursts of heavier rain and sunshine to follow. His life calm and ordered, his face familiar to every British household, Stuart's profound weather knowledge and accuracy have given him high status among forecasters, but no physical baptism by storm.

Not, that is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion. By frightening accident, Stuart learns more secrets from the flight than wind speeds – and back home in England he faces threats and danger as deadly as anything that nature can evolve.'Second Wind' is a twisting spiralling hurricane of a thriller that will defy anyone to treat the weather as an everyday topic of conversation.

Good for readers who want: a mystery and a classic.

  • Mystery
  • Classics
  • Thrillers
  • Caribbean area
  • Thrillers, espionage
  • Threat (Psychology)
  • Conspiracy
  • England

2 About Dick Francis

1920–2010

Richard Stanley Francis (31 October 1920 – 14 February 2010) was a British steeplechase jockey and crime writer whose novels centre on horse racing in England. After wartime service in the RAF, Francis became a full-time jump-jockey, winning over 350 races and becoming champion jockey of the British National Hunt.

Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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