{"id":3271,"date":"2024-09-24T15:52:48","date_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2024-09-24T15:52:48","modified_gmt":"2024-09-24T14:52:48","slug":"review-agent-seventeen-by-john-brownlow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-agent-seventeen-by-john-brownlow\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Agent Seventeen, by John Brownlow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As this book received the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award in 2023, I thought I&#8217;d give it a go.  It is a very silly book.  Agent Seventeen &#8212; whose real name we never learn &#8212; is the current holder of the world championship assassin&#8217;s league, or whatever.  He replaced Agent Sixteen, who has gone into retirement.  Agent One, apparently, was the legendary Sydney Reilly who was many things but not a professional paid assassin.  A minor quibble. Lots of violence, not much of a plot to speak of, two-dimensional characters &#8212; I loved it.  Couldn&#8217;t wait to read the sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As this book received the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award in 2023, I thought I&#8217;d give it a go. It is a very silly book. Agent Seventeen &#8212; whose real name we never learn &#8212;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3272,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3271","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\/3271","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=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}