skygiants

Are the secret racecourse police a real thing? I don't know, but this was introduced on the first page and it was already everything that I had expected a Dick Francis novel to be.

I'm glad!

I read The Edge for the first time in April, at a very bad time, and I don't think it's my favorite Francis because that's almost certainly Reflex, but I really liked it and the dinner theater meta was a definite contributor.

- the hypercompetent project manager who serves as the love interest whenever either she or Our Hero have spare time, which is really not very often, she's kind of busy coordinating a major event?

This is characteristic of Dick Francis novels and one of the reasons I enjoy them so much. Romance, whatever. Let us do complicated technical things in our separate and/or overlapping spheres and appreciate one another for it.