{"id":3315,"date":"2024-11-08T12:45:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2024-11-08T12:45:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-08T11:45:23","slug":"review-the-vanishing-man-by-alma-katsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/review-the-vanishing-man-by-alma-katsu\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: The Vanishing Man, by Alma Katsu"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This very short novella is available on Amazon Kindle for free &#8212; apparently one doesn&#8217;t buy the book, but &#8220;borrow&#8221; it.  What a great idea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s the first part of a trilogy of short fiction telling the story of a Russian spy known &#8212; though he hates this part &#8212; as the &#8220;Russian James Bond&#8221;, who is the process of defecting to the West.  I won&#8217;t say any more about the story except that nothing is as it appears, the tale is pacey and well-written, and I look forward to &#8220;borrowing&#8221; the other two parts of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This very short novella is available on Amazon Kindle for free &#8212; apparently one doesn&#8217;t buy the book, but &#8220;borrow&#8221; it. What a great idea. It&#8217;s the first part of a trilogy of short fiction&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3315","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\/3315","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=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ericlee.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}