{"id":2844,"date":"2023-05-30T17:02:55","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=2844"},"modified":"2023-05-30T17:02:55","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T16:02:55","slug":"review-the-english-fuhrer-by-rory-clements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-english-fuhrer-by-rory-clements\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The English F\u00fchrer, by Rory Clements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I was not aware when I purchased this book that it was the most recent in a series featuring American-born Cambridge professor (and spy) Tom Wilde.  The good news is that knowing that, I&#8217;ve saved myself a lot of time as I have no intention of reading another book in the series.  While the opening scenes are gripping &#8212; a Japanese submarine making a secret delivery to the English shore in the final days of the Second World War, for instance &#8212; they quickly fade away and this becomes yet another thriller-by-numbers, with chase scenes at night through the English countryside, evil Nazis and *spoiler alert* even more evil Communists.  The characters are wooden, the plot non-existent.  Don&#8217;t waste your time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was not aware when I purchased this book that it was the most recent in a series featuring American-born Cambridge professor (and spy) Tom Wilde. The good news is that knowing that, I&#8217;ve saved&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2846,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2844\/revisions\/2846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}