{"id":21929,"date":"2019-04-18T10:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21929"},"modified":"2019-09-21T11:13:06","modified_gmt":"2019-09-21T15:13:06","slug":"the-killer-collective-by-barry-eisler-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=21929","title":{"rendered":"The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2019\/z041819killercollective_zview.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"751\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1503904261?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1503904261\">The Killer Collective<\/a> by Barry Eisler<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hardcover: 401 pages<br \/>\nPublisher: Thomas &amp; Mercer<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That was the dirty little secret of 9\/11, he thought.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:&nbsp; Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When sex crimes detective, Livia Lone uncovers a child pornography ring with ties to government officials and a cover-up by the FBI, she becomes a target.&nbsp; Barely avoiding assassination by a two person hit team, Lone reaches out to Dox, a mercenary and former Marine sniper.&nbsp; When a second attack on Livia is thwarted, Dox contacts his former team:&nbsp; John Rain, Rain&#8217;s ex-lover Delilah, black ops soldiers Ben Treven, Daniel Larison, and Colonel Scot \u201cHort\u201d Horton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eisler is not only an excellent writer but his experience in a covert position for the CIA and black belt in judo provide authenticity to the action scenes.&nbsp; He&#8217;s especially good at bringing out the underlying tension when a group of mercenaries are brought together under circumstances where any one (or more of them) may be secretly part of the group they are working to bring down.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1503904261?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=craizabls&amp;camp=1789&amp;linkCode=xm2&amp;creativeASIN=1503904261\">The Killer Collective<\/a> is an intelligent action novel that entertains.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<br \/>\n<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Killer Collective by Barry Eisler Hardcover: 401 pages Publisher: Thomas &amp; Mercer First sentence&#8230; That was the dirty little<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-crime","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929","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=21929"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22637,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21929\/revisions\/22637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}