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Secret Cargo |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Robert F. Geary |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1993 |
| Size: 2,496 Words, 15,108 Characters |
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DRIVING FORCE
Dick Francis
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1992
280 pp., $21.95
On the first description, the mystery novels of Dick Francis sound like "sleepers" in the sense of soporifics mystery genre versions of Sominex. Described as a "brand-name author" by his publisher, Francis restricts his plots to matters connected with horse racing in England. Nor does he have as a central character a dangerous, brooding loner likely to erupt in violence to carve a path to the truth. Lacking the allure of an exotic locale or a borderline protagonist, Francis' latest book, Driving Force, at first promises little excitement, seeming a quiet bedtime read perhaps for those who prefer to turn a few pages of a mildly cerebral mystery before falling off to sleep at night.
Like its author, Dr...
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...mplacent in our confidence that our fashionable talk of society's guilt betokens or real moral superiority, we easily shed (at least in words) "the social tear" when confronted with evidence of barbarism. But the self-congratulatory tears blind our eyes to the sterner truths from the past, insights that may be the real secret cargo smuggled into the present by novels such as Driving Force. vbcrlf
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