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Pulse
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Summary
With the stakes so high, racing can be a deadly business...best-selling author Felix Francis' latest thriller!
Chris Rankin is a doctor, a specialist in emergency medicine at Cheltenham Hospital, but a doctor who also has health problems.
A smartly dressed man has been found unconscious at the local racecourse and is rushed to the hospital, where he subsequently dies. But who is he? Where does he come from? He had no form of identification on him, and no one claims the body.
Doctor Rankin is intrigued by the nameless dead man, obsessed even, and starts asking questions. However, someone doesn't want the questions answered and will go to any lengths to prevent it, including attempting murder. But no one else believes that someone tried to kill Chris, leaving the doctor no option but to discover who the nameless man is and why he died, preferably before following him into an early grave.
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- SirMoBotRio16
- 18-10-17
Change of angle
The first "Dick Francis" novel from a female character I believe. Felix you have done a brilliant job. Don't know how correct the medical stuff is, but don't care. Fast paced, good characters & a twist in the tale at the end. Masterpiece. The Francis inheritance is alive & well.
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- Kindle Customer
- 02-01-18
Pulse
..didn't make mine race. Eating disorder and mental health well covered, drug info interesting but story never got off the ground for me
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- Anne
- 10-11-17
Very obviously produced for American listeners
Story OK, narrator OK but aggravated by use of American terms rather than English words.
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- MikeyC
- 04-11-17
Slow start but developed into a great book
I've read all Dick/Felix Francis books and was initially surprised by the slow start and slight change of style.
Glad I stayed with it as I thoroughly enjoyed the book. Very well read too
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- Carol
- 22-10-17
Ploddingly predictable plot
A straightforward racing based crime novel as one would expect from the Francis stable. The plot was predictable with no surprises. Good narration though and I did manage to finish it. Not Felix Francis's best effort
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- Sally-Anne Caunter
- 05-02-24
Totally different Francis book
Although loosely based around horse racing, this had a totally different feeling. I was mesmerised from start to finish.
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- Dyane
- 05-10-17
Racing drama from a different angle
I have no idea how correct the medical content is, Felix is continuing in the fast paced addictive style of his late parents. couldn't stop listening as the storyline developed. Excellent narrator hope she will narrate more audio books. highly recommended. I am officially a Francis addict
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- Radoxthegreen
- 23-11-21
Dear Felix stories good Americanisms naff!
This time I lost track of how many Americanisms were used. Dick Francis talked people to get things right, this was6a British medical story, so why get the units wrong? Q mixture of SI and non SI units, terminology incorrect but despite that a cracking read!
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- Gina
- 18-12-18
Different
Different, heavy going in places but worth finishing. The "Americanisms" are irritating ie cell for mobile and pants for trousers
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- Mrs O.
- 30-06-19
More mental health than horses
As others have commented, this is not a thriller about horses but a thriller about mental health wrapped around spot fixing in racing.
Dr Clare Rankin is an A & E consultant but one with serious issues of depression and an eating disorder. Describing her inner life and mental manoeuvring and the effects on her and her family of these conditions takes up rather too much of the story. I am sure they are well described and her behaviour, bordering on OCD, is an important factor in her dogged determination to find out why an Indian had died in A & E after being found in the men's toilets at Cheltenham Race Course. However it does become rather wearisome for those of us wanting to listen to a racing story from the Francis stable.
The denouement is of course highly unlikely but that's thrillers for you.
Clare Corbett did a very good job of reading the story.
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