{"id":30916,"date":"2022-11-11T07:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30916"},"modified":"2022-11-11T07:52:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T12:52:23","slug":"hell-of-a-mess-by-nick-kolakowski-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=30916","title":{"rendered":"HELL OF A MESS\u00a0by Nick Kolakowski \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z111122zview_hellofamess.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"380\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3DnEmOL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hell of a Mess<\/a><\/span>\u00a0by Nick Kolakowski<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Trade Paperback: \u200e 234 pages<br \/>\nPublisher: \u200e Shotgun Honey Books (August 25, 2022)<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was the worst possible timing &#8211; or maybe the best.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fiona and Bill are back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As a major hurricane bears down on New York, Fiona is on a mission to pull off a heist from a bad guy&#8217;s luxury penthouse.\u00a0 She has a plan to get past the security team, grab the item and be gone before they know it&#8217;s missing.\u00a0 What Fiona didn&#8217;t count on was what she found in the master bedroom.\u00a0 Now she&#8217;s on the run with <s>redacted due to spoiler<\/s>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill is riding out the storm in a &#8220;borrowed&#8221; penthouse.\u00a0 The place is well-stocked and the owner left for safer regions well before the hurricane was scheduled to hit.\u00a0 Bill plans to eat and drink, as he waits for Fiona to return.\u00a0 Suddenly a group of dirty cops bust into the penthouse. They&#8217;re looking for <s>redacted due to spoiler <\/s>\u00a0but find Bill instead!\u00a0 The cops are desperate.\u00a0 Bill realizes they&#8217;ll kill him unless he can convince them he knows of money ripe for the taking.\u00a0 Bill&#8217;s a good con man, but how long can he con these hardcore cops?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fiona is on the run, slowed down by <s>redacted due to spoiler<\/s>.\u00a0 Bill&#8217;s a prisoner of rouge cops driving to the promised &#8220;treasure&#8221;.\u00a0 The weather&#8217;s getting worse.\u00a0 What else could go wrong?\u00a0 How about a hitman that Bill and Fiona had left for dead, ain&#8217;t.\u00a0 And he&#8217;s back.\u00a0 Yeah, it&#8217;s a hell of a mess and things are about to get worse.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hell of a Mess<\/span> rates 4 of 5 stars.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a rollercoaster ride from start to finish.\u00a0 I hope we&#8217;ll see a <em>Love &amp; Bullets Hookup Book 5<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hell of a Mess<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3fgbmRh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trade Paperback<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hell of a Mess<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3SIohcg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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>Hell of a Mess\u00a0by Nick Kolakowski Trade Paperback: \u200e 234 pages Publisher: \u200e Shotgun Honey Books (August 25, 2022) First<\/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":[61,52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30916","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\/30916","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=30916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31004,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30916\/revisions\/31004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}