{"id":3356,"date":"2013-02-03T08:10:09","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T14:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2013-02-02T20:11:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T02:11:48","slug":"book-3-of-52-the-fifth-assassin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/book-3-of-52-the-fifth-assassin\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 3 (of 52) &#8211; The Fifth Assassin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3357\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=3357\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3357\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3357\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3357\" alt=\"14889776\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/14889776.jpg\" width=\"210\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/14889776.jpg 210w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/14889776-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3357\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Fifth Assassin &#8211; Brad Meltzer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When I finished Brad Meltzer&#8217;s last book\u00a0<a style=\"font-size: 0.8em;\" title=\"Book 8 (of 52) \u2013 The Inner Circle\" href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/book-8-of-52-%e2%80%93-the-inner-circle\/\">2 years ago<\/a>, I noted that the ending seemed rife for a follow-up. \u00a0His latest picks up the threads left behind and strings together another tale of Beecher White, the latest member of the fabled Culper Ring, as he tries to protect the man who has vowed to take him down: the President of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Meltzer again follows his formula of the little man going up against the Washington DC power structure, but it once again works for him. \u00a0The one knock I have against this book is that it assumes that you have read\u00a0<em>The Inner Circle<\/em>, and read it recently. \u00a0This one throws you right into the action with little in the way of introduction for the returning characters. \u00a0Once you catch up with what&#8217;s going on, though, it is full speed ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Judging from the ending, the story of Beecher White is destined to be a trilogy, so it looks like there will be another two year wait before we get the end of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I finished Brad Meltzer&#8217;s last book\u00a02 years ago, I noted that the ending seemed rife for a follow-up. \u00a0His latest picks up the threads left behind and strings together another tale of Beecher White, the latest member of the fabled Culper Ring, as he tries to protect the man who has vowed to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[2988,710,2987,2986,759],"class_list":["post-3356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-beecher-white","tag-brad-meltzer","tag-culper-ring","tag-the-fifth-assassin","tag-the-inner-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}