{"id":30526,"date":"2022-09-15T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30526"},"modified":"2022-09-13T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T18:04:24","slug":"the-donut-legion-by-joe-r-lansdale-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30526","title":{"rendered":"THE DONUT LEGION by Joe R. Lansdale is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3QG8PME\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z091522donutlegion_lansdale.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe Lansdale is on my must-read list for ANY novel that he writes.\u00a0 I emphasize any because Lansdale writes in whatever genre strikes his fancy.\u00a0 His upcoming novel is titled <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3d8RBda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Donut Legion<\/a>.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the synopsis&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Edgar award-winning author Joe R. Lansdale beams a light on an East Texas town held in the grip of conspiracy.<br \/>\nCharlie Garner has a bad feeling. His ex-wife, Meg, has been missing for over a week and one quick peek into her home shows all her possessions packed up in boxes. Neighbors claim she\u2019s running from bill collectors, but Charlie suspects something more sinister is afoot. Meg was last seen working at the local donut shop, a business run by a shadow group most refer to as \u2018The Saucer People\u2019; a space-age, evangelist cult who believe their compound to be the site of an extraterrestrial Second Coming.<\/p>\n<p>Along with his brother, Felix, and beautiful, randy journalist Amelia \u201cScrappy\u201d Moon, Charlie uncovers strange and frightening details about the compound (read: a massive, doomsday storehouse of weapons, a leashed chimpanzee!) When the body of their key informer is found dead with his arms ripped out of their sockets, Charlie knows he\u2019s in danger but remains dogged in his quest to rescue Meg.<\/p>\n<p>Brimming with colorful characters and Lansdale\u2019s characteristic bounce, this rollicking crime novel examines the insidious rise of fringe groups and those under their sway with black comedy and glints of pathos.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3d8RBda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pre-orders<\/a> are available now.\u00a0 Deal me in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Lansdale is on my must-read list for ANY novel that he writes.\u00a0 I emphasize any because Lansdale writes in<\/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_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[61,52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30526","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\/30526","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=30526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30527,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30526\/revisions\/30527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}