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Since then Miles has endured flashbacks and feelings of guilt because he survived the accident which killed his father. It's pretty obvious that Miles Pussett is suffering from PTSD and the character is a brave choice for Felix Francis, whose heroes have usually been rather more immediately capable. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. That leads to Miles’ discovery that Jerry is probably fixing races and maybe was when Miles was his jockey.

These various pressures lead to nightmares, panic attacks, and an overuse of alcohol as an anesthetic.

He also tries to emulate his father, pursuing jump racing, but perpetually battling the brutal weight requirements and the demands of his boss, stable owner Jerry Dickinson, horses, and owners. The slight description of Miles’s parents, his father, Jim the great equestrian and his worrywart mother did not leave much of an impression. The two periods in his life collide when his former boss Jerry Dickinson cajoles him into helping out by taking one of his two horses for a run and saddling up the other before a race. I suspected, but was kept guessing, and had to smile to myself when everything was sewn up very nicely at the end.

On a personal note, one minor issue for me was that I had a little bit of trouble sometimes keeping track of the shifts from past to present and back.Having read the previous novel Guilty not Guilty by Felix Francis I was excited to get the opportunity to read this one. While there is no pro- or epilogue statement about the need to seek professional help and addiction recovery organizations, the wisdom of those courses of action is apparent in the tale. Eventually, he has a panic attack and is found by two policemen in the middle of a street late one night. This book doesn't have the "on your chair" excitement, but it is well written and keeps you wanting to continue reading. In 2019 was the International Guest of Honor at Bouchercon 50 in Dallas, Texas, the world’s largest crime fiction convention.

He is thrown from the drive side to the passenger side to lay on Miles lap for over an hour until they can be cut from the wreckage. Miles waits to confront Jerry, but when the horse Jerry was holding comes into the stables alone, Miles goes looking for Jerry and finds him face downon the ice, when he rolls him over he sees Jerry seems to have had a good beating, but refuses to let Miles get the police or and ambulance. Barely any mystery, way too much alcoholism, some insta-love with the MC and his nurse, and then the worst part: the chapters kept flipping back and forth between the past and the present - but, with NO WARNING WHATSOEVER. The relationships between families, peers and those we meet randomly in life is wonderfully mirrored to us in this book, and helps us to easily identify these characters in our own life - whether up close and personal, or at a distance in the world of work. But after the race when Miles takes the losing horse back to the stable he becomes suspicious, something doesn’t seem right.However, this one is slightly different in so far that it is set in St Moritz in the Swiss Alps, where, every year, racehorses compete on a track built right on the frozen lake. Iced is actually a bit more than that, though, as it bounces back and forth between two storylines: a retrospective look at protagonist Miles Pussett’s difficult early life and mental health battles, and today’s story, with a now sober Pussett cautiously, and somewhat unwillingly, dipping his toes back into horse racing after a long hiatus. His father had maneuvered the car so that he caught the full force of the collision on his side of the car. He has a very narrow scope of things, namely anything that inconveniences him is bad and anything that supports him is good. Francis devises a subtle, clever scheme for the heart of the mystery, and he excels at making his broken lead credible and sympathetic.

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