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Proof – Dick Francis
R40,00
Published in 1984. First Edition. Looks very good for its age, not read much. Pages have yellowed; no dog ears. The dust jacket shows some minor wear and has an old price sticker on the back.
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If you mix a liquid with gunpowder and ignite it, and it burns with a steady blue flame, then the liquid must be at least fifty percent alcohol; and that’s PROOF… That’s the way they proved a liquid was alcohol in the seventeenth century when distilled spirits were first taxed, and that’s what is meant by proof to this day.
Tony Beach, wine merchant, knew his scotch, so to be asked to give his opinion on one particular bottle seemed harmless enough, but the bottle contained firewater of a highly-explosive nature… and Tony without intending it had set out on a one-way route into danger.
From a harmless Sunday morning party at a racing stable and onwards to the edge of death, Tony came nearer and nearer to a lethal adversary and also to unexpected knowledge of his own true self.
Dick Francis, international best-seller, has written and enthralling book for wine lovers and for racegoers, and for any whose courage may need to survive the steady blue flame of proof.
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