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When jockey Martin Stukely dies after a fall at Cheltenham, he accidentally embroils his friend Gerard Logan in a perilous search for a stolen videotape. Logan is a glassblower on the verge of widespread acclaim. Long accustomed to the frightful dangers inherent in molten glass and in maintaining a glassmaking furnace at never less than 1800 degrees Fahrenheit, Logan is suddenly faced with terrifying threats to his business, his courage, and his life. Believing that the missing video holds the key to a priceless treasure, and wrongly convinced that Logan knows where to find it, criminal forces set out to press him for information he doesn't have. To survive, he realizes that he himself must sort out the truth. The final race to the tape throws more hazards in Logan's way than his dead jockey friend could ever have imagined. Glass shatters. Logan doesn't. . . but it's a close-run thing.… (more)
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Logan is a glass-blower on the verge of widespread acclaim for the originality of his work. Long accustomed to the frightful dangers inherent in
The main character Gerard Logan was a glass blower and he was a great friend of a successful jockey. The jockey was killed in the first act in a terrible accident but he left behind a rather intriguing mystery that turns to a lot of trouble for Logan. Many people are looking for the secret that was left with Logan, only someone stole it from him and no one believes him.
I enjoyed Shattered, despite a couple of hunh moments when a plot device seemed too contrived. Otherwise very good, and classic Francis style.