Felix Francis was eight years old when his father's first novel "Dead Cert" was published in 1962. Felix is now 69, and his latest novel "Hands Down" is the new book in the canon of "Dick Francis" novels, the 55th book in the family's 60-year history of horse racing-themed thrillers.
"I grew up in the greatest fiction factory of the 20th century," Felix tells me via Zoom from his home in England. "The discussion over the breakfast table wouldn't be about who was doing the school run, but whether Sid Halley [a disabled private detective who appears in several of the novels] could survive the night with a .38 slug in his guts."
