{"id":1109,"date":"2005-05-18T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2005-05-18T00:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/2005\/05\/grifters_game\/"},"modified":"2005-05-18T00:02:06","modified_gmt":"2005-05-18T00:02:06","slug":"grifters_game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/grifters_game\/","title":{"rendered":"Grifter&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/rcm-uk.amazon.co.uk\/e\/cm?t=friday05-21&#038;o=2&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;asins=0843953497&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000ff&#038;bc1=ffffff&#038;lt1=_blank&#038;nou=1&#038;IS2=1&#038;f=ifr&#038;bg1=ffffff\" width=\"120\" height=\"240\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\" align=\"right\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><br \/>\nThis is the first of the Hard Case Crime books that started being published in the States last year. They feature fantastic period-style covers and are a combination of newly published works and re-published older pieces. In this case, it&#8217;s a 1961 vintage book that was originally titled Mona. Block, of course, continues to be a bestselling crime author.<br \/>\nThis book is short and to the point. A seedy, world-weary grifter gets embroiled in a block of heroin, a girl and her husband. Things happen quickly and I won&#8217;t spoil the story. It&#8217;s first person, and obviously owes a lot to those 40s noir films. Great fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the first of the Hard Case Crime books that started being published in the States last year. They feature fantastic period-style covers and are a combination of newly published works and re-published older pieces. In this case, it&#8217;s a 1961 vintage book that was originally titled Mona. Block, of course, continues to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}