Comeback
Comeback Books
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Peter Darwin was hoping for some silent place from the Foreign Office. Instead he found himself in the village of his childhood – at the service of a veterinary general practitioner whose operating theatre was rapidly acquiring an unwanted reputation as an abattoir. The sudden unexplained death of a string of valuable racehorses from one small area in Gloucestershire was a mystery the police couldn’t solve. But Darwin was local. He remembered the people and what was at stake…And now he know enough to get himself killed…
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I really loved this one. Peter Darwin in a civil servant recently posted back home to England after several years in Japan. He makes the acquaintance of some fellow Brits who are mugged.They are both pretty shaken and are glad for his help when they make it to England. But the troubles are only beginning. Darwin is soon caught up in sorting out some malicious mischief at a vet’s surgery. I liked this one a lot.
Rating: 5 / 5
Through a run of twists and turns a young civil servant returns to his childhood home and finds a new supporter. His new supporter’s career is threatened by a run of patient losses below his care.
Dick Francis has his usual understanding of horses and people.
Rating: 4 / 5
Through a run of improbable coincidences a young civil servant becomes caught up in the problems of a young veterinarian.
As usual, Dick Francis writes perfectly and brings his characters to life.
As usual, horses are caught up.
Rating: 4 / 5
COMEBACK is not one of Dick Francis’s best, but down a step from fantastic to different. When you write about a master who produces one fantastic mystery after another, the downs are better than the writers in second place.
Peter Darwin is a young British civil servant who stops off in Miami on his way home from Toyko. An improbable meeting with a nice link who are on their way to London and enjoying a last night on the town set the stage for this strangely paced mystery.
Vicky Larch and Greg Wayfield are on their way to Gloucester to attend Vicky’s daughter’s wedding. Peter’s childhood home is Gloucester. This mystery/suspense novel takes you deep into the world of veterinary surgery with one of the weirdest climaxes in the world of mystery/suspense.
Nash Black, author of SINS OF THE FATHERS and QUALIFYING LAPS.
Rating: 3 / 5
In Comeback, Francis enters the world of diplomacy and veterinary medicine more than horse racing, although horses play an vital part as usual. The plot seems more contrived than usual in this outing, but. The tale opens when Peter Darwin, after meeting two British performers in Miami, find himself helping the link after they are mugged on the street. Having taken responsible for them in a small way, he finds himself escorting them to England where they are to attend the woman’s daughter’s wedding.
Once in England, things really go to pieces. The daughter and her fiance work in a veterinary sickbay, he as a well-respected general practitioner, she as a nurse. But his career is in jeopardy as one after another horse dies after he has operated on it. And the cause has proved impossible to determine.
On a stay to the races at Cheltenham, Peter just happens to meet a young woman employed by the Jockey Club who is escorting two Japanese gentlemen, neither of whom speaks English. Well, Peter’s last posting just happened to be Japan where he learned the language and he had even met one of the gentlemen even as posted there. The romance which follows is contrived and adds nothing to the basic tale in itself. Annabel, the young woman Peter has eyes for, does have connections that help him in his investigation, but those meetings may possibly have come about in a more believable make.
Still, Francis’ knowledge of horses, racing, and the in rank he garners regarding other professions is everlastingly enlightening. Weak as it is, Comeback is still a quick and often fun read.
Rating: 3 / 5