Summary and Reviews of Second Wind by Dick Francis

Second Wind by Dick Francis

Second Wind

by Dick Francis
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  • First Published:
  • Oct 1, 1999, 293 pages
  • Paperback:
  • Oct 2000, 272 pages
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His most electrifying, death-defying ride yet

Dick Francis takes us on his most electrifying, death-defying ride yet in Second Wind.

The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves thirty feet high and blow through houses at devastating speeds. For TV meteorologist Perry Stuart, however, such predictions are generally hypothetical, as he chiefly predicts periods of English drizzle, with bursts of heavier rain and sunshine to follow. 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 airplane as a holiday diversion. But a frightening accident teaches Stuart more secrets than wind speeds . . . and back home in England he faces threats and danger as deadly as anything nature can evolve.

Dick Francis "has simply never failed. Every one of his opening sentences pulls the reader in, and doesn't let go until the last, perfect word," according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Second Wind may be his greatest triumph yet.

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Kirkus Reviews
[Francis] does a masterly job building portents of doom......[and delivers] his usual unobtrusive technical mastery.

Publishers Weekly
Francis's writing is smooth and intelligent.

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