{"id":1825,"date":"2017-01-04T08:19:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T16:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2017-12-18T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-18T16:28:13","slug":"review-triple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/review-triple\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Triple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5067\" style=\"float: left;padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.gr-assets.com\/books\/1389155091m\/5067.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Triple\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/5067\">Triple<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/3447\">Ken Follett<\/a><br \/>\n      My rating: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1865558494\">3 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      Been trying to write a spy novel, and have been struggling, so I figured I\u2019d read a few. Tried some Len Deighton, but that didn\u2019t go well. Tried this here Ken Follett. Went better. At least I finished the book.<\/p>\n<p>Learned some things. Spy novels always have nuclear weapons in them. At, least, so far, all the one\u2019s I\u2019ve read. This time around, Israel&#8217;s trying to get ahold of some. Good for them, I guess. Send in their toughest, hardest, most emotionless agent to pull off the impossible.<\/p>\n<p>Oops, he falls in love along the way. I didn\u2019t care for this part- I\u2019m supposed to be okay with him having the hots for a woman more or less his own age, one who has a young daughter, and then when things don\u2019t work out, and the mother\u2019s dead later, and the daughter\u2019s all grown up? No thanks.<\/p>\n<p>But let\u2019s skip that. Because otherwise, there\u2019s lots of fun to be had. There\u2019s three governments involved, and each government has their inner intrigues. There\u2019s daring-do and dead drops, subterfuge, intrigue insubordination, gun fights. You know, spy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>So, all told, not a bad little primer for a wannabe like myself. And for you hard-core spy novel fans. Well, I\u2019m guessing you\u2019ve already read this one. It\u2019s a classic.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1865558494\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple by Ken Follett My rating: 3 of 5 stars Been trying to write a spy novel, and have been struggling, so I figured I\u2019d read a few. Tried some Len Deighton, but that didn\u2019t go well. Tried this here Ken Follett. Went better. At least I finished the book. Learned some things. Spy novels &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/04\/review-triple\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Review: Triple&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24y52-tr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1826,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1825\/revisions\/1826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bukkhead.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}