{"id":1891,"date":"2005-01-25T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1891"},"modified":"2018-07-27T17:03:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T22:03:29","slug":"1891","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/25\/1891\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Free Fall<\/i> by Robert Crais (1993)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0553092421\/ref=lpr_g_1\/103-2562713-3267036?v=glance&#038;s=books\" target=\"_new\">this book<\/a> in hardback, but that means instead of bending paperback covers, I got blue ink on my hands from the spine of the de-dustjacketed book.  I guess it was worth it.<\/p>\n<p>Elvis Cole receives a visit from a damsel in distress who thinks that her fiance, a cop with an elite undercover group, is in some sort of trouble.  The cop visits Cole right after the woman leaves and explains that he&#8217;s just cheating on her.  Elvis follows up and finds that one of them is lying and one of them is not.  It would be a much shorter book if only the woman had been lying.<\/p>\n<p>The book returns to a better hard-boiled standard where the detective is looking for answers and not just solving a problem&#8211;even though there&#8217;s some of that in this book.  Still, I like the style of the plot better than <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/01\/20\/1872\/\" target=\"_new\"><i>Lullaby Town<\/i><\/a>, and I&#8217;m even willing to overlook some questionable plot holes in the beginning&#8211;as long as I don&#8217;t think about it too much.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s better than average detective fiction bordering on the exceptional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have this book in hardback, but that means instead of bending paperback covers, I got blue ink on my hands from the spine of the de-dustjacketed book. I guess it was worth it. Elvis Cole receives a visit from a damsel in distress who thinks that her fiance, a cop with an elite undercover [&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-1891","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\/1891","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=1891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20652,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1891\/revisions\/20652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}