When Dick Francis died, his photo appeared in all the newspapers. It was only then that his son, Felix, realised how famous his father was.
‘The first part of a Dick Francis novel I wrote was to design the bomb that blew up a light aircraft in Rat Race in 1970,’ Felix says. ‘After that I wrote all sorts of bits of the books, including helping with the last third of Shattered in 2000.’
It’s only since 2006 that Felix has gone solo, even though
