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Originally Posted by benham
You have read Dick Francis then? Not too many better rhen him.
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Originally Posted by mikelvdb
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Dick Francis is my favourite potboiler. His modus is pretty much:
Hunt out some moderately obscure occupation
Do a bit of research on it, enough to impress a layman
Sketch out a reasonably complex but believable scenario using the research
Set it somewhere vaguely horsey
Populate scenario with some semi-cardboard characters
Write it up in competent english
Profit
In my opinion, he's a true professional - no literary pretensions, but very good at producing lots of straightforward thrillers. Dan Brown could learn a lot from him.
David Gemmel is his equivalent in the fantasy genre - you know what you're going to get, and you know it won't be earthshakingly original, but it will be put together very well.