{"id":42226,"date":"2026-08-10T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42226"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:37:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T15:37:57","slug":"the-last-good-guy-by-t-jefferson-parker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=42226","title":{"rendered":"THE LAST GOOD GUY by T. Jefferson Parker \/ 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\/2019\/z070819thelastgoodguy_tjeffersonparker.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"755\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4gcOf6G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE LAST GOOD GUY<\/a> by T. Jefferson Parker<\/p>\n<p>First sentence&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There&#8217;s this scene in old detective movies where the investigator sits in his office, waiting for someone to come in and hire him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Overview:\u00a0 Beware of Spoilers\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Roland Ford realizes that a beautiful woman with secrets who hires a private investigator to find a missing family member is cliche.\u00a0 But that&#8217;s exactly what happens when Penelope Rideout enters Ford&#8217;s office to hire him to find her missing little sister.\u00a0 Ford&#8217;s definitely attracted to Penelope, and that helps his decision to take the case.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Daley is Penelope&#8217;s fourteen year old sister.\u00a0 Penelope has been her guardian since their parents died.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ford discovers that Daley was seen with a twenty-something man later found murdered. Ford also learns Daley is somehow mixed up with Reggie Atlas, a charismatic Christian nationalist preacher. Atlas owns a secluded compound that is heavily guarded.\u00a0 A ten-foot tall fence, multiple security cameras and armed guards indicate something sinister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ford&#8217;s instincts tell him that Penelope has lied to him&#8230; but he isn&#8217;t sure where the truth ends and the lies begin.\u00a0 He just knows a child is missing and he may be her last hope.<\/p>\n<p>+++<\/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>THE LAST GOOD GUY by T. Jefferson Parker First sentence&#8230; There&#8217;s this scene in old detective movies where the investigator<\/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":[52,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42226","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=42226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42390,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42226\/revisions\/42390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}