{"id":1221,"date":"2006-04-09T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-09T21:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2006-04-09T17:42:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-09T21:42:00","slug":"soloman-hunter-now-thorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"Soloman & Hunter… Now Thorn"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>James Byron Huggins <\/strong>is one of my favorite authors. I’ve enjoyed every book that I’ve read by him, and <\/span>two<\/strong> [<\/span>Cain<\/a><\/strong> and <\/span>Hunter<\/a><\/strong>] are all-time favorites. In fact, I’ve always wished that <\/span>Huggins<\/strong> would do a sequel teaming the two heroes, <\/span>Soloman<\/strong> and <\/span>Hunter<\/strong>, in a new adventure.<\/span><\/p>\n

Although <\/span>Sorcerer<\/strong>, <\/span>Huggins<\/strong>‘ latest novel, doesn’t bring back either <\/span>Soloman<\/strong> or <\/span>Hunter<\/strong>, it does introduce us to a new hero, <\/span>Michael Thorn<\/strong>. <\/span>Thorn<\/strong> is an <\/span>ex-cop<\/strong>, <\/span>ex-Airborne Ranger <\/strong>who, at <\/span>45<\/strong>, has opted for early retirement after seeing more than enough action in the military and as a decorated detective. <\/span>Thorne<\/strong>, his wife, and two children move to a remote <\/span>New England <\/strong>town where they buy a house in the country.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any hope for a peaceful retirement is gone when <\/span>Thorn<\/strong> discovers a hidden room in his basement. In the room he finds a <\/span>skeleton chained to the wall<\/strong>. The manacles are engraved with an ancient writing. When the <\/span>skeleton<\/strong> disappears and people start turning up dead, <\/span>Thorn<\/strong> suddenly finds himself allies with <\/span>Assassini<\/strong> sent from <\/span>Rome<\/strong> to do battle with the ancient evil that has returned from the grave!<\/span><\/p>\n

Huggins<\/strong> has the ability to make a story move, but never at the expense of character development. He also has the talent to <\/span>make the unbelievable believable<\/strong>. I must admit that before reading the book,. I was worried that the villain would be some kind of <\/span>wizard<\/strong> like in <\/span>Harry Potter<\/strong> or <\/span>King Arthur<\/strong>. Boy, was I wrong. This sorcerer is an ancient evil who dared to challenge <\/span>Moses<\/strong> himself!<\/span><\/p>\n

I thoroughly enjoyed <\/span>Sorcerer<\/strong><\/a> and wouldn’t mind a sequel. Hmmm… maybe <\/span>Thorn<\/strong> could team with <\/span>Soloman<\/strong> and <\/span>Hunter<\/strong> on a new adventure?<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

James Byron Huggins is one of my favorite authors. I’ve enjoyed every book that I’ve read by him, and two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}