Book Review: Trial Run by Dick Francis

This time we are on a trip to Russia with Dick Francis and the hero of this story, Randall Drew who is a vetran horseman. This is the time of the Olympic Games in 1980 and he is investigating a rumour about the fate of one of the British horse team.

This book was written ten years (published in 1978) before the fall of the Berlin Wall fell, with the memory of the Munich Olympics still fresh and Russia still in the grips of communism. In this novel his hero is upper class and this counterbalances with the classless society of Russia at the time.

This novel is interesting for this aspect of a time gone by but as ever it is entertaining and a cracking ride of a read from Dick Francis.

8/10 for me.