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Felix Francis (born 1953) is a British crime writer. He is Dick Francis’ younger son. Felix studied physics and electronics at London University, and then started a 17-year career teaching Advanced Level physics at three schools, the last seven as head of the science department at Bloxham School in Oxfordshire, before quitting to look after his father's affairs. He lives in Oxfordshire. From 1993 to 2005, he was a director and deputy chairman of World Challenge Expeditions Ltd. Felix is also a former governor of Winchester House Prep School, and is a governor of Malvern College. Dick's wife, Mary Francis, assisted with both the research and the writing of many of Dick's novels until her death in 2000. Felix assisted with this, and after Mary died Felix took over her work. Felix and his father often worked together on plot and character details at Dick’s home in the Cayman Islands. This partnership allowed Dick to draw upon Felix’s knowledge and experience as a physics teacher in Twice Shy and his past as an international marksman in Shattered (2000) and Under Orders (2006). With the publication of Dead Heat in 2007, Felix took on a more significant role in writing, and was credited as co-author. Silks (2008) was the second novel in this father-and-son collaboration, and Even Money (2009) was the third. Crossfire (2010) was the novel Dick and Felix were working on when Dick died in February 2010. Felix's first novel written without his father was Gamble, published in September 2011, beginning the "Dick Francis novel" franchise. Critical response Kirkus said Gamble was "fully worthy of the family name", familiar to Dick Francis fans, but well-handled. Eurocrime gave a mixed review to Gamble, commenting on Felix's lack of direct experience of horseracing, criticizing "a curious flatness" in its narration, but calling it "a nicely layered, slightly complex thriller". Novels References. Discover the Felix Francis popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Felix Francis books.
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Outside Chance
Lyndon StaceyBen Copperfield is a freelance journalist who specialises in all things equine, so when he is called with the news that the hot favourite for the Cheltenham Gold Cup has been kidna...
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Unsinkable
Dan JamesA DOOMED VOYAGEApril 14th 1912. The maiden voyage of the world's most luxurious passenger liner, Titanic. A DARK PASTEach passenger has their own reason to make the crossing, but f...
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Blindfold
Lyndon Stacey'The blindfold was a major hindrance. So much depended on body language with animals Without it, it felt uncomfortably like a game of Russian roulette.'Gideon Blake, artist and ani...
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The Complete Dangerous Davies
Leslie ThomasAs plainclothes men go, Dangerous Davies looks like a nonstarter. The small fry of petty larceny and minor disturbances in the backwaters of northwest London are his daily round. H...
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Silks
Dick Francis & Felix FrancisA lawyer and amateur jockey is torn between doing what’s right and what will keep him alive in this New York Times bestselling thriller from Dick and Felix Francis.Geoffrey Mason w...
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The Complete Cat
Vicky HallsThe Complete Cat is an essential reference book that covers every aspect of cat ownership. Drawing on the breadth of knowledge gained over many years, it is an absolute musthave fo...
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Deadfall
Lyndon StaceyBay Tremayne, heir to a viscountcy and manager of his father's Dorset estate, has one burning ambition to be selected to ride on the British Olympic threeday eventing team. But hi...
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Crisis
Felix FrancisNew York Timesbestselling author Felix Francis returns with his newest edgeofyourseat horseracing thriller in the Dick Francis tradition.Harrison Foster, a crisis manager for a Lon...
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Murder in Mind
Lyndon StaceySophie Bradford is pretty, blonde and an accomplished flirt. When her body is found dumped in a ditch on a lonely West Country road, Jamie Mullin is the prime suspect. He was her l...
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Longshot
Dick Francis“Fastpaced, meticulously plotted...Nobody sets up a mystery better than Dick Francis.”San Francisco ChronicleJump in the saddle with a sure thing. Travel writer John Kendall trave...
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Taking the Fall
A.P. McCoyFrom champion jockey A.P. McCoy comes a tense and utterly gripping racing thriller.Duncan Claymore could have it all. He's one of the country's up and coming young jockeys and this...
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Sudden Times
Dermot HealyOllie Wing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car park and lives in a rundown house with a group of art students. He can't escape wh...
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Pulse
Felix FrancisNew York Timesbestselling author Felix Francis is back with this thrilling adventure in the Dick Francis tradition.A smartlydressed man has been found unconscious at the local race...
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Crystal
Katie PriceA glittering and sexy story of passion and betrayal and one woman's search for true love.Crystal is beautiful, talented and ambitious. All her life she has dreamed of making it as ...
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If I Die Before I Wake
Sherwood KingLaurence is a young exsailor who can't resist the lure of the good life, and when he finds a job as chauffeur to the wealthy Mr and Mrs Bannister, his occasional work leaves him fr...