{"id":14187,"date":"2015-01-09T10:33:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=14187"},"modified":"2015-01-09T10:33:15","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T16:33:15","slug":"book-report-terrible-tuesday-by-don-pendleton-1979","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/09\/book-report-terrible-tuesday-by-don-pendleton-1979\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Terrible Tuesday<\/i> by Don Pendleton (1979)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00OYMPA1Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00OYMPA1Y&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/terribletuesday.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a>I know, I know, you&#8217;re quoting back to me what I said <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/03\/2014-the-year-in-reading\/\" target=\"_blank\">last week<\/a>: &#8220;In 2015, I hope to finish more books, and as always, I hope to read a better quality of literature&#8230;.&#8221;  How does it explain that the last two books I finished were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00OYMPA1Y\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00OYMPA1Y&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">this book<\/a> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/book-report-mondays-mob-by-don-pendleton-1978\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monday&#8217;s Mob<\/a><\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>\tI&#8217;m reading Julius Caesar&#8217;s <em>The Gallic War<\/em>, and after every book or half book, I take a little time to read from cheap paperbacks.  As these paperbacks are shorter than <em>The Gallic War<\/em>, I&#8217;m finishing more of them as I read one piece of longer work.  So there.<\/p>\n<p>\tMack Bolan, on the second day of the last week of his free agency, swings out to California at a tip from Leo Turrin and stumbles into a plot of the new California Concept.  A group of retired mobsters and the remnants of Bolan&#8217;s previous visits have gathered in a plan to build the world&#8217;s foremost data and electronic signals interception facility to gather as much information as they can for their nefarious schemes, and it&#8217;s up to Bolan to stop it.<\/p>\n<p>\tMan, what a world that was where the plot of men&#8217;s adventure novels involved the mob doing this sort of thing.  In the 21st century, it&#8217;s the government doing it, and the electronic and wireless transmission of information is much greater.<\/p>\n<p>\tIf only they weren&#8217;t the 1970s, I&#8217;d want to live in the sweet, innocent world of the 1970s.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><br \/>\n<iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=stlbrianj-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B00OYMPA1Y&#038;asins=B00OYMPA1Y&#038;linkId=UXARJGFB5IUZVRC2&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, you&#8217;re quoting back to me what I said last week: &#8220;In 2015, I hope to finish more books, and as always, I hope to read a better quality of literature&#8230;.&#8221; How does it explain that the last two books I finished were this book and Monday&#8217;s Mob? I&#8217;m reading Julius Caesar&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-report","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14189,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14187\/revisions\/14189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}