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    <![CDATA[Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun's over when a team of hit men crash the party...literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion--and sets off a mystery that's an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was my favorite of all the Dick Francis books. It contains all of the best elements of his works: first, of corse, a well crafted mystery. Then there is a main character already going through changes in his life who gets caught up in the mystery. Then there is the painstaking research Francis d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42081165">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Next to Break In, this may be my favorite Dick Francis story.  The storyline is intriguing, enthralling and heartbreaking.  Anything I know about scotch, I learned from Dick Francis.  Twenty years after reading Proof, I bought a bottle of Laphroaig for my boss based simply on this book.  A definite ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60801398">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book was good, and I loved how the character struggled with finding the courage his father and grandfather had...and then found it, just in time.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best Dick Francis I can ever remember reading.  If you've never read him, this is a good one to start on.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A wine merchant becomes involved in false wine and scotch labelling. Funny and exciting]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is not so much a recommendation for this book as it is for the author.  The book is good.  Francis writes great mysteries, which are perfect if you are rained in or just plain don't want to go anywhere for a day and are looking for a way to turn off the old brain for awhile.  Good stuff!  Alway...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5121732">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[wine, whisky and horse racing...a compelling trio.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[PROOF - VG<br/>Francis, Dick - 23rd book<br/><br/>Tony Beach, wine merchant, knows his whisky, so to be asked to give his opinion of one particular bottle seems harmless enough - until he realizes that the bottle contains firewater of a highly-explosive nature.<br/><br/>Not one of my favorites,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32731469">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book combines the best of both worlds:  Dick Francis and liquor.  What more could you want?  Admittedly, I'm a huge DF fan (at last count I had 23 1st editions of his work), but this one is my all time favorite (with <em>Banker</em> as a close second).  If you read no other DF books, read this one (and ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7456942">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have read so many of his that I don't know what ones I haven't read so I just marked this one. I like him, he is a fast easy read and keeps me entertained between other series that I am reading. They are always about horse racing but the characters change. The setting is usually in Europe. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It's mystery. It's British.  How can I resist easy entertainment as fun as this?  Dick Francis' men are all interchangeable, and remind me of James Bond with more morals and less drama.  This is one of my favorites (meaning I can actually connect the plot with the title).]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I love Dick Francis' books. They're mysteries and they involve horses, which I was obsessed with as a little girl. The books are easy to read, although sometimes a bit far-fetched. This one is the first I read and one of my favorites. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Another paperback I inherited from my dad. I’d never read Dick Francis before — this was pretty good. I’d read more. It’s part of the “Horseracing Mystery Series”, but it really didn’t have much to do with horseracing.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Wine merchant Tony Beach has expertly catered his latest society soiree, but the fun's over when a team of hit men crash the party...literally. The event leaves Tony with a bitter aftertaste of suspicion--and sets off a mystery that's an intoxicating blend of deception, intrigue, and murder.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Hero: Tony Beach; He is a wine merchant so the focus of this book is on a scam in the world of fine wines.  All of these books tie into the racing world, of course, since that is where Francis is a born and bred expert.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Personally, this was my favorite (thus far) of Dick Francis' novels.  I really learned about the wine &amp; spirits industry, and was able to follow the story line without getting lost!  I would highly recommend it!]]></body>
    
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