![]() ![]() Nerve (1964): Rob Finn, the lone jockey in a family of musicians, faces off against a malevolent villain driven by obsessive hatred of jockeys. And so, without further ado, here’s my Top Ten list.ġ0. Interestingly, too, there are definitely standouts for me - and I think there are a couple of duds, too. On the other hand, the differences have never been - and probably never will be again - as clear in my mind as they are now. One question I’ve been asked pretty often when I mention that I’m doing this is “Which Dick Francis novels are your favorites?” A variation on this is “If I haven’t read any Dick Francis before, which one(s) should I start with?” You might think that, with so many books with so much in common, the worst time to answer these questions is right now, before the dust has really settled. I have been binge-reading Dick Francis in service of an essay project that is steadily, if a bit stumblingly, heading towards completion. ![]()
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