{"id":8471,"date":"2010-11-22T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2010-11-22T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T20:41:08","slug":"book-report-copp-on-fire-by-don-pendleton-1988","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/22\/book-report-copp-on-fire-by-don-pendleton-1988\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: <i>Copp on Fire<\/i> by Don Pendleton (1988)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the third book in the previously mentioned Copp series, and it focuses on the seamy side of Hollywood.  Copp is hired by a studio head to take some quick pictures of people entering and leaving a business.  Immediately after he turns over the film, Copp sees the aftermath of a car bomb in a limosuine&#8211;the one the studio head drove.  Suddenly, Copp is wanted in connection with the explosion and with a string of deaths of the people depicted in the photographs.  Before long, he&#8217;s embroiled in a twisting journey through the sleazy underbelly of Hollywood including faked deaths, hidden deaths, marriages of convenience, sexy starlets, and enforcers from the syndicate back east who are bankrolling studios.<\/p>\n<p>The book is a little longer than the first in the series, and it has a lot of characters to keep track of.  Unfortunately, Copp works in the dark a lot here and things just seem to happen to him, but it&#8217;s a good enough book nevertheless.  I&#8217;m still keeping my eye out for others in the series.<\/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=0595153216\" 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>This is the third book in the previously mentioned Copp series, and it focuses on the seamy side of Hollywood. Copp is hired by a studio head to take some quick pictures of people entering and leaving a business. Immediately after he turns over the film, Copp sees the aftermath of a car bomb in [&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-8471","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\/8471","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=8471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8474,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8471\/revisions\/8474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}