{"id":39771,"date":"2025-08-27T08:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T12:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39771"},"modified":"2025-08-26T16:37:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T20:37:36","slug":"everybody-wants-to-rule-the-world-by-ace-atkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=39771","title":{"rendered":"EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD by Ace Atkins!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ace Atkins has a new novel coming out!\u00a0 It’s called EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD<\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s the scoop…<\/p>\n

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Elmore Leonard meets Robert Ludlum in a rollicking comedic thriller set in 1985 from acclaimed author Ace Atkins, in which a suburban teen suspects his mom\u2019s new boyfriend is the ultimate bad guy\u2014a KGB agent.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s 1985, what will soon become known as \u201cThe Year of the Spy,\u201d and fourteen-year-old Peter Bennett is convinced his mom\u2019s new boyfriend is a Russian agent. \u201cGary\u201d isn\u2019t in the phone book, has an unidentifiable European accent, and keeps a gun in the glove box of his convertible Porsche. Peter thinks Gary only wants to get close to his mom because she works at Scientific Atlanta, a lab with big government contracts. But who is going to believe him? He\u2019s just a kid into BMX and MTV.<\/p>\n

But after another woman who works at the lab is killed, Peter recruits an unlikely pair of allies\u2014a has-been pulp writer and muckraker named Dennis Hotchner and his drag performer buddy and heavy, Jackie Demure. Both soon become the target of an unhinged Russian hitman (Is it Gary? Maybe!) with a serious Phil Collins obsession.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Sylvia Weaver, a young, Black FBI agent, investigates Scientific Atlanta in the wake of the employee\u2019s murder and discovers a nest of Russian spies in the Southern \u201ccity too busy to hate.\u201d Little does she know her investigation is being thwarted by a seriously compromised colleague in Washington, D.C., who is in league with a lovesick, hypochondriac KGB defector who is playing both sides of the Cold War to his benefit.<\/p>\n

As Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev prepare for a historic nuclear summit in Geneva, what happens in Atlanta might change the course of the Cold War, the twentieth century, and Peter Bennett\u2019s freshman year of high school.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Ace Atkins tales always entertain.\u00a0 EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD drops on December 2, 2025.\u00a0 Pre-orders are available now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ace Atkins has a new novel coming out!\u00a0 It’s called EVERYBODY WANTS TO RULE THE WORLD.\u00a0 Here’s the scoop… Elmore<\/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":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771","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=39771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39772,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39771\/revisions\/39772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}