{"id":1922,"date":"2015-12-28T04:36:58","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2015-12-28T04:38:51","modified_gmt":"2015-12-28T10:38:51","slug":"wildfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1922","title":{"rendered":"Wildfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Nelson DeMille, 2006, Warner Books, New York<\/p>\n<p>This is a\u00c2\u00a0novel about a retired NYC police detective\u00c2\u00a0working for an anti-terrorist group within the FBI after 911.\u00c2\u00a0 His wife\u00c2\u00a0also works for the FBI and is\u00c2\u00a0officially his supervisor. \u00c2\u00a0It takes place in the Adirondacks.<\/p>\n<p>The plot is interesting, although somewhat of a stretch.\u00c2\u00a0 John Corey, the main character, is a bold, wise-cracking individual who, I think, may have a personality similar to that of DeMille.<\/p>\n<p>The novel suffers a bit from a little too much dialogue with the villain, which sometimes slows down the action so that the books tends to drag in places.\u00c2\u00a0 While the bantering and jokes are fun, it can get a bit wearing at times.\u00c2\u00a0 Otherwise, the book was OK.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"2 1\/2 stars\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-2-5.gif\" alt=\"2 1\/2 stars\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Nelson DeMille, 2006, Warner Books, New York This is a\u00c2\u00a0novel about a retired NYC police detective\u00c2\u00a0working for an anti-terrorist group within the FBI after 911.\u00c2\u00a0 His wife\u00c2\u00a0also works for the FBI and is\u00c2\u00a0officially his supervisor. \u00c2\u00a0It takes place in <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=1922\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[15,19],"class_list":["post-1922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction","tag-historical-novel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1922"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1925,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922\/revisions\/1925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}