{"id":15224,"date":"2016-03-09T08:23:06","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T14:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=15224"},"modified":"2016-03-08T11:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T17:23:31","slug":"book-report-tuscany-terror-by-don-pendleton-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/09\/book-report-tuscany-terror-by-don-pendleton-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Tuscany Terror<\/i> by &#8220;Don Pendleton&#8221; (1983)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0373610521\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0373610521&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/tuscanyterror.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0373610521\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=0373610521&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=stlbrianj-20\" target=\"_blank\">This book<\/a> is another post-Pendleton Mack Bolan volume.  In it, Bolan has to go to Italy to rescue the wife and child of an Army officer from a terrorist group holding the hostages to get the officer to falsely confess to involvement with the Mafia.<\/p>\n<p>Bolan goes and shoots up a bunch of stuff, and then he infiltrates some stuff.  The book is a lesser entry than <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/04\/book-report-vultures-vengeance-by-don-pendleton-1983\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Vulture&#8217;s Vengeance<\/em><\/a>, but it&#8217;s not bad.<\/p>\n<p>Once or twice a year, I get the urge to plow through the unread books I have in this series (and there are 93 left on my to-read shelves <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/20\/book-report-doomsday-disciples-by-don-pendleton-1983\/\" target=\"_blank\">according to this count<\/a>) minus the two I&#8217;ve read since).  Then I read a bunch of them in short order and realize how similar they are to each other.  Apparently, three is my limit, so I&#8217;ll probably focus on reading other things for a bit.<\/p>\n<p>And hope to live another thirty-some years to make it through my Mack Bolan library at this pace.<\/p>\n<p><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=0373610521&#038;asins=0373610521&#038;linkId=H4KBSDE3LHQT7V2N&#038;show_border=false&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is another post-Pendleton Mack Bolan volume. In it, Bolan has to go to Italy to rescue the wife and child of an Army officer from a terrorist group holding the hostages to get the officer to falsely confess to involvement with the Mafia. Bolan goes and shoots up a bunch of stuff, and [&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-15224","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\/15224","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=15224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15225,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15224\/revisions\/15225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}