{"id":3946,"date":"2007-08-17T15:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-17T20:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2017-11-25T10:40:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T16:40:13","slug":"book-report-the-parisian-affair-by-nick-carter-1981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/17\/book-report-the-parisian-affair-by-nick-carter-1981\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: The Parisian Affair by Nick Carter (1981)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This completes my recent reading of three great novels set in Paris (the others: <i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/23\/book-report-the-three-musketeers-by-alexandre-dumas-1844-1999\/\">The Three Musketeers<\/a><\/i> and <i><a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/book-report-the-hunchback-of-notre-dame-by-victor-hugo-1831-193x\/\">Hunchback of Notre Dame<\/a><\/i>).  This book, number 148 of about 260 featuring Killmaster Nick Carter, offers everything a growing boy needs.  The action and the story are tied together.  The story moves.  The cover&#8217;s not as lurid as one would hope from a paperback original, but one can learn to accept.<\/p>\n<p><b><font color=\"red\">Plot Summary \/ Spoiler Alert!<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Nick Carter is ambushed, saves damsel, sleeps with damsel; Nick Carter is ambushed, kills a couple ambushers, one escapes; Nick interviews model who might be an expert assassin, sleeps with her; Nick is in building that explodes; Nick sleeps with woman he saved; Nick ambushes model, kills level bosses, discovers model is only a junkie; Nick finds another model, dead, declines to sleep with her; Nick drives Ferrari fast; Deus ex maquina encounter as Nick discovers big boss and kills him; Nick drives Ferrari fast, rescues his boss; book ends with more implied sleeping with damsel formerly in distress.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, no trained goats tempted Nick, or it would have been a much different story.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I can read some quality junk fiction to clean some from my shelves.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0441651763&#038;fc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;bc1=000000&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;f=ifr\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This completes my recent reading of three great novels set in Paris (the others: The Three Musketeers and Hunchback of Notre Dame). This book, number 148 of about 260 featuring Killmaster Nick Carter, offers everything a growing boy needs. The action and the story are tied together. The story moves. The cover&#8217;s not as lurid [&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-3946","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\/3946","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=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17892,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/17892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}