{"id":696,"date":"2007-12-03T20:19:32","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=696"},"modified":"2007-12-03T20:19:32","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T20:19:32","slug":"mystery_deal_br","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/mystery_deal_br.html","title":{"rendered":"Mystery: &#8220;Deal Breaker&#8221; by Harlan Coben"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not your typical genre piece in that the main character is a sports agent rather than a PI, or retired cop, or former FBI agent or whathaveyou.   Yet your typical genre piece with the &#8220;tougher than the main dude&#8221; sidekick (think Joe Pike in the Elvis Cole books).  Some really yicky aspects to the mystery.  Still:  very enjoyable, lots of sarcastic witty humor.  Already bought the second one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not your typical genre piece in that the main character is a sports agent rather than a PI, or retired cop, or former FBI agent or whathaveyou. Yet your typical genre piece with the &#8220;tougher than the main dude&#8221; sidekick &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2007\/12\/mystery_deal_br.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-readin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}