{"id":29517,"date":"2022-05-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29517"},"modified":"2022-05-01T23:54:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T03:54:52","slug":"payback-is-forever-by-nick-kolakowski-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=29517","title":{"rendered":"PAYBACK is FOREVER by Nick Kolakowski \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z050522zview_paybackisforever.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Payback<\/span> <u>is<\/u> <u>Forever<\/u> by Nick Kolakowski<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trade Paperback: \u200e 170 pages<br \/>\nPublisher: \u200e Shotgun Honey Books (March 24, 2022)<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While the shootout paused so everybody could reload, Miller wondered whether the clown was still alive.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Miller is a successful thief and a not so successful gambler.\u00a0 This causes him to take a job with a couple of crooks he doesn&#8217;t know.\u00a0 The job goes sideways, the mooks attempt to double cross Miller, and several civilians are killed.\u00a0 Not all is lost since Miller gets away with the loot.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Now Miller&#8217;s on the run.\u00a0 When he&#8217;s offered a job to provide protection for a &#8220;simple&#8221; transaction, Miller knows there&#8217;s no such thing as simple in his line of work.\u00a0 But the money is too good to pass. Miller needs the payoff to get away and lay low.\u00a0 Of course nothing is as it seems (boy, it that true!) and Miller is going to learn that <em>Payback is Forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kolakowski has created a great throwback to the Gold Medal paperbacks my grandpa and I used to read.\u00a0 I blazed through it, enjoying every page.\u00a0 <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Payback<\/span> <u>is<\/u> <u>Forever<\/u> is full of interesting characters &#8211; crooked crooks, midget hitmen, a ventriloquist with a wise-ass dummy, a sexy love interest and more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Payback<\/span> <u>is<\/u> <u>Forever<\/u> rates 4 of 5 stars.\u00a0 If this sounds like something you&#8217;d dig, what are you waiting for?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Payback<\/span> <u>is<\/u> <u>Forever<\/u> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ESL4gb\">Trade Paperback<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Payback<\/span> <u>is<\/u> <u>Forever<\/u> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3k6Zxf3\">Kindle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<br \/>\n<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Payback is Forever by Nick Kolakowski Trade Paperback: \u200e 170 pages Publisher: \u200e Shotgun Honey Books (March 24, 2022) First<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":[61,52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29517","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\/29517","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=29517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29589,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29517\/revisions\/29589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}