{"id":23745,"date":"2018-10-24T14:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=23745"},"modified":"2018-10-22T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T19:04:15","slug":"book-report-twisted-path-the-executioner-121-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/24\/book-report-twisted-path-the-executioner-121-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Twisted Path<\/i> The Executioner #121 (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/twistedpath.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">This book is better than the preceding installment (<a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/17\/book-report-border-sweep-the-executioner-120-1988\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>Border Sweep<\/em><\/a>).  In it, Bolan gets tapped to find out who killed an FBI agent who was investigating a weapons manufacturer who might have been sending a few shipments of military-grade weapons to a South American gun runner.  Bolan does, but he gets the dirty executive to give him the contact in South America.  Which leads to Bolan to Peru, where a trap has been set for him that sends him to a dark Peruvian prison, where his only hope for escape lies with members of the Shining Path&#8211;members he hopes to eliminate when he gets out.<\/p>\n<p>It has more of an original Bolan flavor than <em>Border Sweep<\/em> with some philosophical asides that are a little like Pendleton used to do, but it&#8217;s not a completely flawless effort.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s better than the one before it and gives me hope that, when I take a break from other things with one of these books, it won&#8217;t be a complete waste of time.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is better than the preceding installment (Border Sweep). In it, Bolan gets tapped to find out who killed an FBI agent who was investigating a weapons manufacturer who might have been sending a few shipments of military-grade weapons to a South American gun runner. Bolan does, but he gets the dirty executive to [&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-23745","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\/23745","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=23745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23746,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23745\/revisions\/23746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}