{"id":36849,"date":"2024-12-16T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-16T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36849"},"modified":"2024-12-08T15:22:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T20:22:16","slug":"scarecrow-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=36849","title":{"rendered":"SCARECROW RETURNS by Matthew Reilly \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3CteuV4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z121624zview_scarecrowreturns.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"815\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3CteuV4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SCARECROW RETURNS<\/a> by Matthew Reilly<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The plane hurled down the airstrip, chased by furious machine-gun fire, before it lifted off with a stomach-lurching swoop and soared out over the vast expanse of Artic sea ice that stretched away to the north.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dragon Island, located near the Artic circle, was a Russian possession.\u00a0 There the best Russian scientists conducted cutting-edge experiments with no guardrails.\u00a0 When Russia collapsed in 1991, so did the program. Since then only a skeleton crew of scientists have lived and worked there.<\/p>\n<p>Until today.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, a terrorist group that calls themselves the Army of Thieves let it be known that they have control of the island.\u00a0 They have set in motion something that will literally burn the atmosphere above the USA, Russia and every country along that latitude\/longitude.\u00a0 The only way to stop the process is with boots on the ground.\u00a0 Neither Russia nor the US has military ships\/planes close enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is one hope.\u00a0 Marine Captain Shane &#8220;Scarecrow&#8221; Schofield is on site about 100 miles north of Dragon Island.\u00a0 Schofield, a couple of marines and a few civilians have been testing extreme cold weather gear.\u00a0 They could get to the island before the deadline.\u00a0 Once there the odds would be overwhelmingly against their survival, let alone stopping the Army of Thieves.<\/p>\n<p>When there is only one chance to save the world, you take it.\u00a0 Even if it&#8217;s a suicide mission.<\/p>\n<p>+++++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Matthew Reilly is the king of page turning nonstop action.\u00a0 His villains are truly evil. Shane &#8220;Scarecrow&#8221; Schofield although outmanned and outgunned never gives up. Each cliffhanger will push you forward.\u00a0 Reilly shocks and surprises readers with outlandish situations and roller-coaster thrills.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCARECROW RETURNS by Matthew Reilly First sentence&#8230; The plane hurled down the airstrip, chased by furious machine-gun fire, before it<\/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":[61,52,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-zombies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849","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=36849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37924,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36849\/revisions\/37924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}