{"id":1567,"date":"2007-08-14T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T03:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2007-08-14T23:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T03:59:00","slug":"the-blonde","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"The Blonde"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RsMvK7XspAI\/AAAAAAAAAqQ\/ifzKxVMf07c\/s1600-h\/z081407_theblonde.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/RsMvK7XspAI\/AAAAAAAAAqQ\/ifzKxVMf07c\/s400\/z081407_theblonde.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098971067895817218\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/zablozone.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/drive-wheelman.html\">I loved<\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Duane Swierczynski\u2019s<\/span> <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312343787\/103-0281683-4888653?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=craizabls&amp;amp;amp;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0312343787\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Wheelman<\/span><\/a> which opened in the middle of a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">bank robbery gone wrong<\/span> and was a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">fast paced, violent, at times humorous and always unpredictable story<\/span>.  So I couldn\u2019t wait to read <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Swierczynski\u2019s<\/span> next novel <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312343795\/103-0281683-4888653?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=craizabls&amp;amp;amp;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0312343795\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Blonde<\/span><\/a>.  I\u2019m happy to say that I was hooked from the opening sentence [one of the best in recent memory]:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">\u201cI poisoned your drink.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">From there we are taken on a wild ride as <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jack Eisley<\/span> attempts to learn why <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">he was poisoned<\/span> by a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">beautiful blonde<\/span> named <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Kelly White<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">why she is infected<\/span> and <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">on the run<\/span> from a <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">covert government agency\u2019s hitman<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Blonde<\/span> is fast paced, lean and will keep you on the edge of your seat as the pages fly by.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Duane Swierczynski<\/span> has another winner that left me excited to start on <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0809556383\/103-0281683-4888653?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=craizabls&amp;amp;amp;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0809556383\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Secret Dead Men<\/span><\/a>!<br \/>___<br \/>Update: <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Duane Swierczynski<\/span> <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/secretdead.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/isnt-she-lovely.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">just posted up<\/span><\/a> the paperback cover to <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312374593\/103-0281683-4888653?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=craizabls&amp;amp;amp;linkCode=xm2&#038;camp=1789&amp;creativeASIN=0312374593\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Blonde<\/span><\/a> which will be available <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">October 30th<\/span>!<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved Duane Swierczynski\u2019s The Wheelman which opened in the middle of a bank robbery gone wrong and was a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","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=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}