{"id":9429,"date":"2015-12-20T08:52:03","date_gmt":"2015-12-20T14:52:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=9429"},"modified":"2015-12-17T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2015-12-18T03:15:06","slug":"book-28-of-52-the-human-factor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/book-28-of-52-the-human-factor\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 28 (of 52) &#8211; The Human Factor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9432\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=9432\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-9432\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9432\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/A13191060301202146.jpg\" alt=\"The Human Factor - Graham Greene\" width=\"300\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/A13191060301202146.jpg 300w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/A13191060301202146-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Human Factor &#8211; Graham Greene<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sometime back in the late 1980s, I somehow acquired a paperback version of this 1978 novel. \u00a0It sat unread before being thrown in a box during a move at some point. \u00a0Within the past few years, I found it in a box of my things and decided to put it back in the &#8220;to-read&#8221; drawer, where it sat until earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Human Factor<\/em> is a tale of an MI-6 agent assigned to the Africa desk who is passing information on to the Russians. \u00a0When a leak is detected in his office, his co-worker takes the fall, causing the double agent to quickly fall apart and reveal his true loyalties.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I expected out of this book, but a slow burn British spy tale without any real action was certainly not it. \u00a0I had no previous experience with Graham Greene&#8217;s work, and, truth be told, I won&#8217;t be looking for any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime back in the late 1980s, I somehow acquired a paperback version of this 1978 novel. \u00a0It sat unread before being thrown in a box during a move at some point. \u00a0Within the past few years, I found it in a box of my things and decided to put it back in the &#8220;to-read&#8221; drawer, [&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":[6153,6152],"class_list":["post-9429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-graham-greene","tag-the-human-factor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429","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=9429"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9434,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9429\/revisions\/9434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}