{"id":1488,"date":"2015-02-04T13:58:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2015-02-04T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T18:58:40","slug":"book-review-smoker-by-greg-rucka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Book review:  Smoker by Greg Rucka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/110137.Smoker\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1320395193m\/110137.jpg?ssl=1\" alt=\"Smoker\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/110137.Smoker\">Smoker<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/18327.Greg_Rucka\">Greg Rucka<\/a><\/p>\n<p>My rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1190669335\">4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Smoker&#8221; is the third book in the Atticus Kodiak series by Greg Rucka. The author has become my favorite author in the thriller genre for his clever plots, well-rounded characters, and lack of overly gratuitous violence (although violence there is&#8211;it is the thriller genre, after all).<br \/>\nThis book has the cleverest plot of the series, so far. Atticus Kodiak is hired to protect someone with a stalker girlfriend, and through some clever twists and turns, it turns out that that is the least of Atticus&#8217;s challenges.<br \/>\nIntertwined with Atticus&#8217;s professional bodyguard challenges are his personal challenges with a friend that he&#8217;s sleeping with and a love interest that he&#8217;s not sleeping with. (Like I said, it&#8217;s complicated.) The secondary characters are well-written and interesting. On the other hand, the overall plot stretches credulity a bit, and I&#8217;m not a huge fan of making tobacco companies the bad guys, as happens here. But these are minor quibbles, and &#8220;Smoker&#8221; is a fast and fun read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/1396812-may\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smoker by Greg Rucka My rating: 4 of 5 stars &#8220;Smoker&#8221; is the third book in the Atticus Kodiak series by Greg Rucka. The author has become my favorite author in the thriller genre for his clever plots, well-rounded characters, and lack of overly gratuitous violence (although violence there is&#8211;it is the thriller genre, after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[40],"tags":[336,149,271],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-books","tag-greg-rucka","tag-smoker"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p23QXm-o0","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1489,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/1489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayliang.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}