{"id":11634,"date":"2017-01-04T07:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=11634"},"modified":"2017-01-02T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-02T17:20:18","slug":"book-1-of-52-a-bloody-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/book-1-of-52-a-bloody-storm\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 1 (of 52) &#8211; A Bloody Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11726\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=11726\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11726\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11726\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11726\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bloodystorm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"454\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bloodystorm.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bloodystorm-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Bloody Storm &#8211; Richard Castle<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The third, and final, installment of the trilogy returning Derrick Storm from the dead finds Richard Castle&#8217;s hero leading a team of fellow ghosted CIA operatives to rescue FBI agent April Showers and find the gold stolen from the Communist party and hidden by the KGB.\u00a0 By the end of the mission, Storm learns who betrayed him in Tangiers and that the gold is still out there, waiting to be found.<\/p>\n<p>This novella wraps up the story started in <em>A Brewing Storm<\/em>.\u00a0 While I get the impetus to split the story into thirds and release them individually, it would have worked better as one whole tale, with the necessary repetition removed and replaced with more action.\u00a0 At the time, though, there was no way of knowing how much of an audience there was for a Richard Castle novel that was not a more-direct tie-in to <em>Castle<\/em>.\u00a0 Enough of one for a full length novel, <a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/book-18-of-52-storm-front\/\"><em>Storm Front<\/em><\/a>, to be released the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third, and final, installment of the trilogy returning Derrick Storm from the dead finds Richard Castle&#8217;s hero leading a team of fellow ghosted CIA operatives to rescue FBI agent April Showers and find the gold stolen from the Communist party and hidden by the KGB.\u00a0 By the end of the mission, Storm learns who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[7056,7046,67,775,5141],"class_list":["post-11634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-a-bloody-storm","tag-a-brewing-storm","tag-castle","tag-richard-castle","tag-storm-front"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11634"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11739,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11634\/revisions\/11739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}