{"id":33761,"date":"2023-09-10T08:06:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-10T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33761"},"modified":"2023-10-17T07:40:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T11:40:14","slug":"kraj-the-enforcer-stories-by-rusty-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=33761","title":{"rendered":"KRAJ the ENFORCER: STORIES by Rusty Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LfAOmE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z091023kraj_enforcer.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;ve never read anything by Rusty Barnes.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about to change.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to put in my order for <strong>KRAJ the ENFORCER: STORIES<\/strong>.\u00a0 Check out the synopsis below,\u00a0 It may be something you&#8217;d like as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meet Kraj\u2014pronounced krai\u2014a low-level errand boy and hitman masquerading as a bouncer for Tricky Ricky Gutierrez, nefarious owner of the Twist, a club in upstate Elmira NY. A place that has both a LGBTQIA night and a cowboy country night, this cockeyed corner bar in northern Appalachia supports Ricky\u2019s illegal schemes, and serves as a rural balm for Croatian-war refugee Kraj.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kraj plies his trade over a short span, moving from petty theft to strong-arming tips from people at the door, breaking up redneck fights, protecting the club\u2019s nubile female staff and collecting gambling debts owed Tricky Ricky. Kraj eventually gets sucked further and further into Ricky\u2019s underworld plans, where he wants to be seen as a man on the come-up, but he has problems moving up in Ricky&#8217;s organization will never solve. His sister Ana, missing since the Croatian War for Independence, never strays far from his mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kraj, together with his sometime girlfriend Cami, newly become manager of a franchisee McDonald\u2019s, and his manager Mikael. negotiates his way through underground fight clubs, prostitution rings, drug deals, petty thievery, and of course, murder. Tricky Ricky gives Kraj a great deal of rope and autonomy to operate.<\/p>\n<p>Will he hang himself with it or swing?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never read anything by Rusty Barnes.\u00a0 That&#8217;s about to change.\u00a0 I&#8217;m going to put in my order for KRAJ<\/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-33761","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\/33761","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=33761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34163,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33761\/revisions\/34163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}