{"id":42081,"date":"2026-07-28T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42081"},"modified":"2026-07-28T08:31:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T12:31:20","slug":"robert-b-parkers-the-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42081","title":{"rendered":"ROBERT B. PARKER&#8217;S THE BRIDGE: A COLE AND HITCH NOVEL by Robert Knott \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4mBT0Y5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2026\/z072726zview_thebridge.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"882\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4pQiEuU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ROBERT B. PARKER&#8217;S THE BRIDGE: A COLE AND HITCH NOVEL<\/a> by Robert Knott<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dense mass of stars was unusually ominous and threatening as if the whole tangle of constellations was up to no damn good.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Word reaches Appaloosa that the massive 300 foot bridge being built over the Rio Blanco River has been blown up.\u00a0 There has been no account of the lives lost or who was behind the deadly blast.\u00a0 Appaloosa\u2019s sheriff, Sledge Driskill and his two deputies ride out to investigate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">When days pass with no word from Sheriff Driskill, territorial Marshals Virgil Cole and Everett Hitch decide to investigate.\u00a0 It could be that Driskill and his men were delayed by the treacherous winter storm that has hit the area.<\/p>\n<p>Or it could be something worse.<\/p>\n<p>When Cole and Hitch are involved, bet on something worse.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">THE BRIDGE is the seventh Cole and Hitch outing and the third written by Robert Knott.\u00a0 The first four were written by the series creator, Robert B. Parker.\u00a0 Knott was selected to continue the series due to Knott&#8217;s involvement with the movie adaptation of Parker&#8217;s first Cole and Hitch novel, APPALOOSA.\u00a0 Knott co-wrote the screenplay with Ed Harris, the star of the film.\u00a0 Knott also served as a producer on the film and played a supporting role in it as well.\u00a0 Knott was a worthy choice to continue the Cole and Hitch tales.\u00a0 Each new novel is sure to entertain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Rating:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_b.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROBERT B. PARKER&#8217;S THE BRIDGE: A COLE AND HITCH NOVEL by Robert Knott First sentence&#8230; The dense mass of stars<\/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":[52,65,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-trivia","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42081","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=42081"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42303,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42081\/revisions\/42303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}