Second wind
Language: English
Action & Adventure British British - Caribbean Area Caribbean Area Conspiracy Detective Detective and Mystery Stories Dick - Prose & Criticism Earth Sciences Espionage Fiction Fiction - Mystery Francis General Hurricanes Juvenile Nonfiction Meteorologists Meteorology & Climatology Meterorologist Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Traditional British Science Science & Nature Suspense Television weathercasters Threats Thrillers Traditional British Weather Women Sleuths
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Published: Jan 25, 2010
Description:
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The grand master of crime fiction gallops once again into the winner's circle with his extraordinary new novel.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.