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...Nore is now 30 and no longer quite the pliable good chap he grew...
Jockey Philip Nore, the narrator and protagonist of Reflex, is the most multi-faceted Franciscan hero to date. Though he is passionately devoted to his way of life, the spills and the thrills, he has become increasingly disillusioned with the cheating and corruption he perceives at all levels of the racing world. Nore is a lonely man, with a badly shriveled ego that even his occasional racetrack triumphs cannot plump out. He appears to have no real sense of his own identity...
...Nore spent his childhood years being dumped on a variety of kindly people. He does not know who his father was. His mother died of drugs. For one happy period of his childhood, he lived with a couple of male photographers, and became a lifelong camera buff. At one point, he was also left with a racehorse trainer and learned the steeplechasing dodge. "Things had happened to me all my life," he says...
...decision is taken out of Nore's hands when his dying grandmother persuades him to search for a long-lost half sister. There is also the matter of a well-known racecourse photographer who is killed in a car accident. Nore becomes involved in the violent aftermath of his death. From scraps of film left by the track photographer, the shutterbug-jockey suspects that the dead man had been blackmailing some of the racing world's leading figures. Between falls on the track and a savage attack by two hit men, Nore suffers even more than the normal...
...project this side of the supernatural ever promised such metamorphoses. The great Communist engine that kicked when the Winter Palace fell would change human nature Man would, predicted Leon Trotsky, "become immeasurably stronger wiser and subtler. His body will become nore harmonized, his voice more musical. The average hu man type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe a Marx. Looking back over 60 years of the Russian Revolution, Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev last week pronounced the stupendous enterprise a success: "Comrades, no event in world history has had such a profound and lasting effect on mankind...