{"id":37153,"date":"2024-12-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37153"},"modified":"2024-12-07T22:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T03:28:12","slug":"the-man-who-came-uptown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=37153","title":{"rendered":"THE MAN WHO CAME UPTOWN by George Pelecanos \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3UUGUxu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2024\/z122324zview_mancameuptown.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"750\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: inherit; color: initial;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3UUGUxu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE MAN WHO CAME UPTOWN<\/a> by George Pelecanos<\/span><\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When Antonius thought of all the things that they&#8217;d wrong the day of the robbery, wearing hoodies might have been at the top of the list.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Michael Hudson is in prison awaiting trial.\u00a0 Michael is at a cross roads.\u00a0 If found guilty of robbery, his life will go in one direction.\u00a0 If the jury decides he&#8217;s not guilty, another.\u00a0 Problem is, he&#8217;s guilty. And they have him dead to rights.\u00a0 Michael was the getaway driver in a job that went bad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s sad to realize your potential too late.\u00a0 Michael&#8217;s not a bad looking guy.\u00a0 He&#8217;s not dumb.\u00a0 Michael could make something of his life, given another chance.\u00a0 Michael&#8217;s decided if he somehow gets freedom, he&#8217;s done with crime.\u00a0 He&#8217;ll get a job. Any job.\u00a0 Then he&#8217;ll continue to better himself.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A miracle happens.\u00a0 Private investigator Phil Ornazian sends word to Michael not to worry.\u00a0 Sure enough and soon enough Michael is released.\u00a0 The witness identifying Michael is no longer sure it was him.\u00a0 Unbelievable.\u00a0 A sentence of five years in a federal pen vanished.<\/p>\n<p>Michael is done with crime.\u00a0 He gets a job as a dishwasher and starts planning for the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Then Michael is visited by Ornazian.\u00a0 Time to pay the piper.\u00a0 Ornazian and a retired cop moonlight by ripping off drug dealers and pimps.\u00a0 It&#8217;s easy money since the folks they steal from would never go to the cops.\u00a0 Ornazian needs a getaway driver for a score.\u00a0 Michael isn&#8217;t interested.\u00a0 Ornazian reminds Michael that he owes him.\u00a0 Who knows, maybe the witness&#8217; memory comes back.<\/p>\n<p>Michael agrees to drive&#8230; one last time.<\/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>THE MAN WHO CAME UPTOWN by George Pelecanos First sentence&#8230; When Antonius thought of all the things that they&#8217;d wrong<\/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_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[52,51,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/37153","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=37153"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37926,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37153\/revisions\/37926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}