{"id":33308,"date":"2023-07-17T08:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33308"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:25:29","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:25:29","slug":"fadeaway-joe-by-hugh-lessig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33308","title":{"rendered":"FADEAWAY JOE by Hugh Lessig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3XSoHB0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z071723fadeaway_joe.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"756\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of good buzz on FADEAWAY JOE by Hugh Lessig.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lowdown&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Perfect for fans of S. A. Cosby and Allen Eskens, Joe Pendergast must go all in one last time as he grapples with the ghosts of his past\u2013and present\u2013in this gritty, high-stakes thriller.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sixty-four-year-old Joe has known violence his entire life. For forty years he\u2019s worked as an enforcer for loan shark and close friend Maxie Smith, breaking more than a few bones along the way. When Maxie abruptly fires him, Joe isn\u2019t sure where to lay the blame\u2014on Maxie, the man he once considered his brother, or on the early-onset Alzheimer\u2019s that made Maxie lose faith in him in the first place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To keep his head above water, he begins to operate a food truck that\u2019s barely getting by. Desperate to regain some purpose in his life, Joe makes a life-altering decision: he\u2019s going to take down Maxie Smith by any means necessary, once and for all. However, his plan of revenge is sidelined when he meets twenty-two-year-old Paula Jessup, a wise-cracking amateur detective with a few scheming cards up her sleeve, who\u2019s on the run from a trafficking ring she\u2019s been investigating. The two form an unlikely bond: Paula needs some protection and Joe needs a purpose.<\/p>\n<p>With the stakes running high and the clock ticking down\u2014will this gamble pay off?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been reading a lot of good buzz on FADEAWAY JOE by Hugh Lessig.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the lowdown&#8230; Perfect for fans<\/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":[52,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/33308","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=33308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34145,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33308\/revisions\/34145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}