{"id":660,"date":"2017-11-01T13:51:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T17:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.durkota.net\/?p=660"},"modified":"2017-11-01T14:01:48","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T18:01:48","slug":"flash-review-volume-v-veterans-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Flash Reviews Volume V: Veterans’ Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veterans deserve more than a day<\/a>. They also deserve more than one sentence.\u00a0 This month is dedicated to Veteran \"\"<\/a>Authors. Buy their books! Post reviews! Support veterans!<\/p>\n

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Bishop’s War (Bishop Series Book 1)<\/em>, Rafael Hines<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cHours before the deadly desert sun rose above the low hills in the east, Clayton Unser walked over to one of the Valdez prison guard to ask a few questions. The moon had been full, bright enough to cast shadows, and the guard wore NVG\u2019s (Night Vision Goggles), but Clayton made sure the man heard him coming. No reason to startle anyone in the dark when they\u2019re holding an AR-15 assault rifle and wearing a .45 Colt Commander in a hip-holster. Clayton raised his hands palms up as a sign of reassurance, not surrender, and to make it an easy reach for the 9mm Glock 17 in his shoulder rig in case things got dicey.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I immediately sense that Clayton is a bad-ass. If I ever need a bodyguard, I will look for someone exactly like Clayton. I may even pay him more if he will let me call him Clayton. Clayton has some skills that you can\u2019t learn in books. Clayton is cool. Clayton is also someone I don\u2019t ever want to anger.<\/p>\n

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The Vampire of Rome<\/em>, Lincoln Farish<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWaking up on the scratchy, bare concrete floor of an underground cell beneath the Vatican in a puddle of my own saliva wasn\u2019t the worst thing that had happened to me that day. Father Guillermo was the nicest torturer one could ever imagine.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What could possibly be worse than waking up in a cell? In the Vatican? In a puddle of spit? Oh\u2026 torture. Got it. This is book four of the Inquisitor Series. If you haven\u2019t already met Brother Sebastian, you need to fix that. Check out my full review of Book One<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Things They Carried<\/em>, Tim O\u2019Brien<\/p>\n

“First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I couldn\u2019t resist including the quintessential veteran story here. I expect that most people have read it, at least the first chapter. If you have not read it, or if you have only read the first chapter, then you should probably fix that too.<\/p>\n

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Veterans deserve more than a day. They also deserve more than one sentence.\u00a0 This month is dedicated to Veteran Authors. Buy their books! Post reviews! Support veterans!   Bishop’s War (Bishop Series Book 1), Rafael Hines \u201cHours before the deadly desert sun rose above the low hills in the east, Clayton Unser walked over to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-flash-reviews","category-veterans"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=660"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durkota.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}