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Comeback

By: Dick Francis
Narrated by: Tony Britton
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Publisher's summary

When globe-hopping British First Secretary Peter Darwin returns to his childhood home for a visit, he is sorry. Waiting for him were long-hidden memories, a string of racehorse deaths and homicide. As Darwin begins to realize that the key to all of it involves his own past, he wishes he'd never come back, because he just might never leave again—alive....

"One of Francis' most winning novels."

SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

©1991 Dick Francis (P)2021 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd.
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Classic Dick Francis, keeps you guessing to the end. Audio quality was not great though.

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Sound quality must have been fixed

Love Dick Francis and most of Felix Francis. I thought sound quality just fine. So glad I ignored reviews to the contrary. It was amazing to listen to DF book I hadn’t heard before. Good reader, good story!

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Terrible audio, great story

Narrator was evidently at a zoo, a busy airport, a garden full of birds…all those background sounds were present in all the audio. Good narration and fabulous story, surprising that Audio books would allow the poor quality.

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Great Plot

I really enjoyed the plot and the twists and turns. Nice read(listen), as usual, with a Dick Francis novel.

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Great story…not so great audio quality!

The story was great, and so was the narration. But the recording sounded like it was coming off a tape recorder 40 years ago! I’d still listen to it again, but was surprised at the poor sound quality.

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Veterinarians, horses mysteriously dying!

A new avenue for Dick Francis…the main character is a man from the Foreign Office who helps a couple who were mugged. This takes them to England and meeting the vets. A mystery from the past gets inexplicably intertwined with the mystery in the present—the inexplicable dying of horses at the vets hospital.

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I thought the story interesting and well done

Love Tony Britton’s voice and characterization. I like that I always learn about horse racing and the different facets of it.

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Another Winner from Dick Francis

Story great as usual. Characters the best. Not the best technical aspect reflect to sound quality but even that could not detract from the excellent narrator.

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Like the story, but sound was weird

The recording sounded like it was phoned in on many different phones with terrible connections. At one point, it sounded like the narrator was recording in an office with others talking in the background. Not sure if my download was just bad or what. It wasn’t so awful that I couldn’t listen, but very distracting.

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Dick Francis’s story is brought to LIFE by Tony Britton. The number of characters and their participation in the threads of the novel are so intricately woven into a great tale! But wait for the twist! Thank you to audible for making this book available!

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