{"id":4758,"date":"2025-11-06T20:48:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4758"},"modified":"2025-11-07T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T18:52:08","slug":"detour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=4758","title":{"rendered":"Detour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BOOK OF THE WEEK<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police officer Ryan Crane rescues a billionaire from an assassination attempt, and that act of kindness gives him the chance of a lifetime in Rake and Hart\u2019s first collaboration. Three astronauts, a lottery winner, and a scientist join Crane on the first trip to Saturn\u2019s moon, Titan. The plan is for them to go around the moon, drop off a reconnaissance satellite, and come back. This two-year journey will demonstrate that it\u2019s feasible to create a future settlement there rather than on Mars. The thought of being away for that long rips family-man Crane apart, but the money and the chance to make a difference have him agreeing to be part of the crew. Right before launch, the billionaire gives Crane an envelope and tells him not to open it, but to give it to him upon their return and not tell anyone on the crew that the package even exists. As the ship blasts off, Crane does not realize that he\u2019s not the only one harboring a secret for a rich man with presidential aspirations. <strong>The book begins in a similar vein to Gene Wilder\u2019s version of <em>Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory<\/em>, but then dives into Andy Weir and Rod Serling territory, making this a blast from the first page to the last.<\/strong> I&#8217;m a fan of Rob Hart\u2019s novels and Jeff Rake\u2019s television series <em>Manifest<\/em>, and <em>Detour<\/em> exceeded my already-high expectations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\u00a9 2025 <strong>firstCLUE Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">\u00a0<a style=\"color: #3366ff\" href=\"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?page_id=2741\">Sign up for our FREE newsletter!<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOK OF THE WEEK Police officer Ryan Crane rescues a billionaire from an assassination attempt, and that act of kindness gives him the chance of a lifetime in Rake and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[66,163,74,73,139],"class_list":["post-4758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-action-adventure","tag-book-of-the-week","tag-mystery","tag-science-fiction","tag-space-exploration"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Detour-395x400.jpeg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/formidable\/4\/Detour.jpeg","author_info":{"display_name":"Jeff Ayers","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=6"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}