{"id":13353,"date":"2018-02-09T21:07:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=13353"},"modified":"2018-02-09T21:07:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T03:07:29","slug":"book-5-of-52-executive-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/book-5-of-52-executive-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 5 (of 52) \u2013 Executive Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13354\" style=\"width: 343px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/exec_order.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13354\" class=\"wp-image-13354 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/exec_order.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/exec_order.jpg 333w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/exec_order-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Executive Order &#8211; Max Allan Collins with Matthew V. Clemens<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With <em>Executive Order<\/em>, Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens finish their trilogy based on the 3 branches of government.\u00a0 In this outing, the US is brought to the brink of war with Russia and Reeder and Rogers must figure out who in the government is plotting against the president before either his hand is forced or he is killed and replaced.<\/p>\n<p>I assume this is the end of the road for these characters, which is a bit of a shame.\u00a0 But, better to go out early than stick around and wear out your welcome.\u00a0 Collins and Clemens combine for yet another interesting thriller, pitting their heroes against the entirety of the US government.\u00a0 My only complaint was that the ending felt a bit rushed, as though they had reached their page limit and just decided to wrap things up with some story still left to tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Executive Order, Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens finish their trilogy based on the 3 branches of government.\u00a0 In this outing, the US is brought to the brink of war with Russia and Reeder and Rogers must figure out who in the government is plotting against the president before either his hand is [&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":[7736,7618,5917],"class_list":["post-13353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-executive-order","tag-matthew-v-clemens","tag-max-allan-collins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353","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=13353"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13358,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13353\/revisions\/13358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}