Jockeys have to be a little crazy, fearless, and sort of adrenaline junkies to enter into the sport… You can listen online to free English audiobook “Nerve” by Dick Francis on our website. But steeplechase is an equestrian sport that takes a very special kind of athlete. The only child of famous virtuoso musicians and the single family member to not be gifted musically, he has followed a different path than that of his family's vocation. As Finn and the other jockeys cope, some better than others, with the stress of their jobs, other incidents lead him to conclude that someone is trying to destroy the lives of jockeys all over England. Robert Finn watches a fellow steeplechase jockey blow his brains out in the parade ring at Dunstable races, just before a race. All his novels deal with crime in the horse-racing world, with some of the criminals being outwardly respectable figures. A near fine book with only slight browning tot he. He won over 350 races, becoming a champion jockey in the 1953–54 season. John Atkinson Fine & Rare Books - A first edition, first printing published by Michael Joseph in 1964. After leaving the RAF in 1946, Francis became a highly successful jockey, reaching celebrity status in the world of British National Hunt racing.

From broken legs to outright murder, Finn quickly finds himself caught up in a rather violent world of horseracing. Instead, he served in the Royal Air Force, working as ground crew and later piloting fighter and bomber aircraft, including the Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, and the Wellington and Lancaster bombers. Mysterious accidents start happening to jockeys, one man is found shot. Nerve by Dick Francis tells the tale of Robb Finn and his investigations into a series of mysterious accidents happening to jockeys. During the Second World War, Francis volunteered, hoping to join the cavalry. Kp boken Nerve av Dick Francis (ISBN 9781405916660) hos Adlibris. Richard Stanley Francis was a British crime writer.