{"id":2204,"date":"2014-01-12T18:16:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T18:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2014-01-12T18:17:48","modified_gmt":"2014-01-12T18:17:48","slug":"john-sandford-stolen-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2014\/01\/12\/john-sandford-stolen-prey\/","title":{"rendered":"John Sandford &#8211; <i>Stolen Prey<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>&#8220;Somewhere along the line, it occurred to him that he hadn&#8217;t spoken to Virgil Flowers. He&#8217;d probably taken the day off, and knowing Flowers, he&#8217;d done it in a boat. The thing about Flowers was, in Lucas&#8217;s humble opinion, you could send him out for a loaf of bread and he&#8217;d find an illegal bread cartel smuggling in heroin-saturated wheat from Afghanistan. Either that, or he&#8217;s be fishing in a muskie tournament, on government time. You had to keep an eye on him.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the first John Sandford book I&#8217;ve read in a couple of years. Much though I love Virgil Flowers as a character, his spin-off series didn&#8217;t quite catch fire for me, and I felt that the <i>Prey<\/i> series had gone off the boil. <i>Stolen Prey<\/i>, however, is Sandford back on good form. A nice, tight thriller, with some excellent character touches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Somewhere along the line, it occurred to him that he hadn&#8217;t spoken to Virgil Flowers. He&#8217;d probably taken the day off, and knowing Flowers, he&#8217;d done it in a boat. The thing about Flowers was, in Lucas&#8217;s humble opinion, you could send him out for a loaf of bread and he&#8217;d find an illegal bread [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books_4_stars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}