13 January 2012

Book Review: Banker by Dick Francis


A young investment banker called Tim Ekaterin becomes involved in the world of thoroughbred racing and his world turns upside down. He arranges a multi-million loan for a client to buy a champion racehorse only to discover that the animal is not all that it seems. He looks for answers as to how this could have happened and he is then into a world of danger, resulting in violence and murder.

He tries to save the banks money and learns more and more about racehorse breeding. The more he gets to know the deeper in he gets. Drugs for genetically altering the racehorse are to the fore, and a champion racehorse with a clean pedigree starts to father foals that are deformed.

A series of gruesome murders around the stud farm include the owner’s daughter with a strange clue in her pocket.

The novel has suspense, thrills, scary bits and some romance. The ending of the book is inconclusive in that you can make up your own mind about what happens next.

Great stuff and 8/10 for me.



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