In this 1984 outing from Dick Francis we peer over the shoulder of the hero, Tony Beach who is a wine merchant with his own small store. However, his private life is overshadowed by the death of his wife and their unborn child. He is in the routine task of catering for one of his horse trainer clients (always the Dick Francis trait to be in the horsey world, I love being there too).
Hit men kill an international figure at the party and Tony gets sucked into the thick of things investigating stolen and fake drinks.
Tony also has a brave father and grandfather before him both of whom he has previously struggled to live up to. However in this book Tony discovers inner strengths that he did not realise that he had. As ever good triumphs over evil and we are rooting for Tony all the way as well as learning something about the drinks industry too.
8/10 for me.
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