Book description
Perry Stuart, TV meteorologist, chiefly predicts periods of English
drizzle, with bursts of heavier rain and sunshine to follow. His life
calm and ordered, his face familiar to every British household, Stuart
s profound weather knowledge and accuracy have given him high status
among forecasters, but no physical baptism by storm.
Not, that is, until a fellow forecaster offers him a Caribbean
hurricane-chasing ride in a small aeroplane as a holiday diversion. By
frightening accident, Stuart learns more secrets from the flight than
wind speeds and back home in England he faces threats and danger as
deadly as anything that nature can evolve.
Second Wind is a twisting spiralling hurricane of a thriller that
will defy anyone to treat the weather as an everyday topic of conversation.
Dick Francis has written thirty-seven international bestsellers and
is widely acclaimed as one of the world's finest thriller writers,
having first been a champion National Hunt jockey. His awards include
the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger for the best novel and the
Cartier Diamond Dagger for his outstanding contribution to the crime
genre. The Mystery Writers of America have given him three Edgar Allan
Poe awards for the best novel of the year - the latest for Come to Grief
- and in 1996 made him a Grand Master for a lifetime's achievement.
