{"id":24470,"date":"2019-04-21T13:01:23","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T18:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24470"},"modified":"2019-04-19T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T17:03:00","slug":"book-report-haitian-hit-the-executioner-129-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/21\/book-report-haitian-hit-the-executioner-129-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Haitian Hit<\/i> The Executioner #129 (1989)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/haitianhit.jpg\" width=\"200\" alt=\"Book cover\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\">To what do I turn after completing <em><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/11\/book-report-the-count-of-monte-cristo-by-alexandre-dumas-1844-1846-1999\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Count of Monte Cristo<\/a><\/em>?  Why, an Executioner book, of course.<\/p>\n<p>This book is not a bad entry.  Bolan is in Haiti to put the hurt on some mobsters, and he ends up getting entangled in a revolution looking to overthrow the military junta in charge after Baby Doc fled.  Since the junta is allowing the mob to build a casino and resort, Bolan&#8217;s plan turns to its destruction.<\/p>\n<p>Once again, these books from the 1980s illustrate how little has changed in the thirty years since they were new.  Haiti is still a mess, and the story would not need much updating to be set in 2019 instead of 1989.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To what do I turn after completing The Count of Monte Cristo? Why, an Executioner book, of course. This book is not a bad entry. Bolan is in Haiti to put the hurt on some mobsters, and he ends up getting entangled in a revolution looking to overthrow the military junta in charge after Baby [&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-24470","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\/24470","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=24470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24471,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24470\/revisions\/24471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}