{"id":5419,"date":"2014-01-28T09:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T15:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=5419"},"modified":"2014-01-27T09:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T15:48:52","slug":"book-3-of-52-the-jigsaw-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/book-3-of-52-the-jigsaw-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 3 (of 52) &#8211; The Jigsaw Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5421\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/16094450.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5421\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5421\" alt=\"The Jigsaw Man - Gord Rollo\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/16094450.jpg\" width=\"294\" height=\"475\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/16094450.jpg 294w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/16094450-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Jigsaw Man &#8211; Gord Rollo<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A homeless man strikes a deal to trade his right arm for $2 million, but\u00a0quickly finds\u00a0out that the whole thing\u00a0is a rouse and is slowly turned in to a modern day Frankenstein&#8217;s monster.\u00a0 Gord Rollo spins a tale that starts with the desperation of the homeless to make better lives for themselves and\/or their loved ones and shows how a deal with the devil, in this case, a crazy doctor hellbent on rebuilding his son&#8217;s body, rarely works out as intended.\u00a0 Mike Fox, the protagonist, signed up to give away an arm and ended up as a patchwork of many different pieces, with only his original head and spinal column in place.<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of Rollo before coming across this book, which I assume was available for free from the Kindle store.\u00a0 It was an interesting tale, and I&#8217;m glad that I ended up reading it, but I don&#8217;t know that I&#8217;ll be checking out any of his other works.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not that I didn&#8217;t enjoy the book, but I haven&#8217;t really spent much time delving into the horror genre lately.\u00a0 Maybe some day in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A homeless man strikes a deal to trade his right arm for $2 million, but\u00a0quickly finds\u00a0out that the whole thing\u00a0is a rouse and is slowly turned in to a modern day Frankenstein&#8217;s monster.\u00a0 Gord Rollo spins a tale that starts with the desperation of the homeless to make better lives for themselves and\/or their loved [&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":[4338,4337,2889,4336],"class_list":["post-5419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-frankenstein","tag-gord-rollo","tag-kindle","tag-the-jigsaw-man"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419","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=5419"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5425,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5419\/revisions\/5425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}