{"id":2190,"date":"2022-05-26T21:59:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-26T21:59:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2023-03-11T18:44:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T18:44:05","slug":"the-handler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=2190","title":{"rendered":"The Handler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Morris-Dale used to work with her husband, John. Now they\u2019re divorced and moving on, their daughter grown and out on her own and John retired and pursing his passion as an artist. Meredith\u2019s job needs John for one last gig, though. That wouldn\u2019t be too unusual except that the task is for him to re-up in the CIA and re-establish contact with a scientist who\u2019s sabotaging Iran\u2019s effort to build a nuclear bomb. John was suspended from \u201cthe company\u201d for an operation that went wrong, the traumatic details of which are slowly revealed; he also doesn\u2019t want back in, but Cerberus, as the Iranian scientist is known to the CIA, won\u2019t deal with anyone else. Soon John\u2019s on a perilous journey to find Cerberus, a journey on which he\u2019s pursued by other global bad guys who are using him to pin down details of the international spy network and move up in the superpower ranks. From the opening, this is like the best kind of action movie\u2014fast moving, smart subplots, hair-raising escapes from death. Adding to the action is John\u2019s decency toward the good people he meets and ruthlessness with all the rest.<strong> If you\u2019ve ever wondered what a much scruffier James Bond would be like, this is the book for you.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Morris-Dale used to work with her husband, John. Now they\u2019re divorced and moving on, their daughter grown and out on her own and John retired and pursing his passion&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[66,81,90,51],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-action-adventure","tag-espionage","tag-political","tag-thrillers"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Handler-400x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Handler-400x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}