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I’m a huge fan<\/strong><\/span><\/a> of Duane Swierczynski<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 His novels are\u00a0 fun<\/strong>, full of twists <\/strong>and never follow a familiar path.\u00a0 Fun & Games<\/strong><\/span><\/a> is the first in his Charlie Hardie<\/strong> trilogy and although I just finished it a few days ago, I’m already chompin’ at the bit to read Hell and Gone<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n Hardie<\/strong> makes his living as a house sitter.\u00a0 There’s not a lot of dough in that line of work, but as an ex-cop<\/strong> with baggage, it’s been a good way to spend the last couple of years.\u00a0 All that changes when Hardie <\/strong>finds a semi-famous actress hiding in the house he’s supposed to be sitting.\u00a0 Is she crazy or could there really be a hit team<\/strong> coming to kill her and everyone in the house?<\/p>\n If my description makes Fun & Games<\/strong><\/span><\/a> sound like your typical ex-cop<\/strong> coming to the aid of a hot but endangered woman, let me assure you that it’s not.\u00a0 Give\u00a0 Fun & Games<\/strong><\/span><\/a> a read and if you don’t like it I’ll buy ya a Diet Coke<\/strong> or a Mocha Frappe<\/strong>.\u00a0 If you do like it, you owe me nothing.\u00a0\u00a0 Deals don’t get much better than that, amigo.<\/p>\n So why do I have “A Texan’s Motto”<\/strong> post card along with my praise for Fun and Games<\/strong><\/em>?\u00a0 Read on, friend.<\/p>\n In the interest of full disclosure<\/strong> [and the fact that I’m always happy to hear from people whose work I admire], I want it to be known that received a post card from Duane Swierczynski <\/strong>this summer.\u00a0 He sent a personalized<\/strong> card to all of his fans who had pre-ordered Fun & Games<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n How do I know it was personalized?\u00a0 Well, do you think he wrote every fan of his calling them a fellow Stallone fanatic<\/strong><\/em>?\u00a0 Yeah, I didn’t think so either.<\/p>\n How do I know Duane Swierczynski<\/strong> is a Stallone<\/strong> fan?\u00a0 Well, Duane<\/strong> is from Philly <\/strong>and everybody there [or from there] loves Sly<\/strong>.\u00a0 Oh, and Mr. Swierczynski <\/strong>used a couple of quotes from Sly<\/strong> as chapter headers.\u00a0 Only a true fan would go THAT far.<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m a huge fan of Duane Swierczynski.\u00a0 His novels are\u00a0 fun, full of twists and never follow a familiar path.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[61,52,17,51,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-celebs","category-crime","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938","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=5938"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33146,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5938\/revisions\/33146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2011\/z101811ds_pc1.png\")
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