{"id":4938,"date":"2009-09-22T13:25:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-22T13:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4938"},"modified":"2010-01-13T07:17:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T13:17:53","slug":"book-report-brimstone-by-robert-b-parker-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/22\/book-report-brimstone-by-robert-b-parker-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Brimstone by Robert B. Parker (2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I&#8217;ve kept my word.  I didn&#8217;t buy this book, I checked it out from the library.  It&#8217;s not that bad of a bit, really, compared to some of Parker&#8217;s other recent entries.  In it, Hitch and Cole rescue <strike>April Kyle<\/strike> <strike>Susan Silverman<\/strike> Allie from a whorehouse and they move to Brimstone, a town on the upswing.  There, a revivalist preacher works to shut down the saloons.  Hitch and Cole work as marshals and set up shop and home with Allie and the daughter of a farmer.  The unholy alliance between the preacher and the biggest saloon owner breaks down violently, and <strike>Spenser and Hawk<\/strike> Everett and Virgil call winner.  Then they decide to leave Brimstone and return to Appaloosa to settle down.<\/p>\n<p>I think I got the major things, but I left out a sidebar about an Indian with a vendetta against the saloon owner.  But Parker could have, too.<\/p>\n<p><center><b>Books mentioned in this review:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=FFFFFF&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=stlbrianj-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;asins=0399155716\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So far, I&#8217;ve kept my word. I didn&#8217;t buy this book, I checked it out from the library. It&#8217;s not that bad of a bit, really, compared to some of Parker&#8217;s other recent entries. In it, Hitch and Cole rescue April Kyle Susan Silverman Allie from a whorehouse and they move to Brimstone, a town [&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-4938","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\/4938","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=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5152,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/5152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}