Well, I’m pretty sure the author made it big enough during his lifetime.<\/p>\n
But here in the 21st century, 25 years after his death, his 1984 book Briarpatch<\/em> is getting a television treatment<\/a>:<\/p>\n The explosive opening of USA\u2019s \u201cBriarpatch\u201d promises that this new series, starring Rosario Dawson as a crusading investigator uncovering hometown corruption, will continue to offer bang for its buck.<\/p>\n That doesn\u2019t quite happen, but \u201cBriarpatch,\u201d adapted from Ross Thomas\u2019 1984 crime fiction novel, does provide enough of a compelling storyline to keep viewers guessing where it will all eventually lead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’m kind of pleased. <\/p>\n It’s been five years since I’ve read a Ross Thomas paperback, but I have plenty scattered amongst the library, possibly including Briarpatch<\/em>. So when I end up reading one of them in the near future, you’ll know why.<\/p>\n (Previously reported: The Porkchoppers<\/a><\/em>, The Mordida Man<\/em><\/a>, and Voodoo, Ltd.<\/em><\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I’m pretty sure the author made it big enough during his lifetime. But here in the 21st century, 25 years after his death, his 1984 book Briarpatch is getting a television treatment: The explosive opening of USA\u2019s \u201cBriarpatch\u201d promises that this new series, starring Rosario Dawson as a crusading investigator uncovering hometown corruption, will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579","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=25579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25580,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25579\/revisions\/25580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}