{"id":3612,"date":"2024-06-28T09:17:10","date_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3612"},"modified":"2024-06-28T09:17:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T15:17:12","slug":"norwegian-by-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3612","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian by Night"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>by Derek B. Miller, 2013, Kindle Edition, Mariner Books, Reprint edition <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wilsonld.com\/weblog\/wp-includes\/images\/stars-3-0.gif\" alt=\"3.0 stars\"\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This book is about Sheldon Horowitz, an 82-year-old former U.S. Marine sharpshooter, who has moved in with his granddaughter and her husband in Norway.  A woman who is a renter in the house is murdered by the father of her son.  Sheldon hides the young boy and then escapes with him on a journey across Norway as the father is coming after them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sheldon struggles with his infirmaties, both mental and physical, as he attempts to save the boy but his former Marine training kicks in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The story was a little fuzzy regarding the motives of the father and, because it switches back and forth from one character and scene to another, it&#8217;s somewhat hard to follow.  Because the plot and setting is so different from other books, however, it is an interesting read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Derek B. Miller, 2013, Kindle Edition, Mariner Books, Reprint edition This book is about Sheldon Horowitz, an 82-year-old former U.S. Marine sharpshooter, who has moved in with his granddaughter and her husband in Norway. A woman who is a <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/?p=3612\"><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],"class_list":["post-3612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612","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=3612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3613,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3612\/revisions\/3613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilsonld.com\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}