{"id":23386,"date":"2025-10-24T13:53:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=23386"},"modified":"2025-10-24T13:53:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:53:24","slug":"book-53-of-52-a-killers-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/book-53-of-52-a-killers-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Book 53 (of 52) &#8211; A Killer&#8217;s Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23387\" style=\"width: 344px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/killersgame.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23387\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23387\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/killersgame.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"334\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/killersgame.jpg 334w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/killersgame-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Killer&#8217;s Game &#8211; Isabella Maldonado<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When FBI agent Dani Vega goes undercover to infiltrate a team of killers responsible for the death of a congressional chief of staff, she understands that she is putting her life at risk.\u00a0 When that team is led into a trap and forced to fight each other to the death in an elaborate game planned by a former client, she is really put in a precarious position.\u00a0 Can her Army Ranger training keep her alive until the FBI can locate and rescue her?\u00a0 Or has she finally reached the end of the line?<\/p>\n<p>A Killer&#8217;s Game is my first time reading Isabella Maldonado&#8217;s solo work, following her <a href=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2024\/11\/book-54-of-52-fatal-intrusion\/\">collaboration<\/a> with Jeffery Deaver last fall.\u00a0 I liked the Dani character, even if the situation she found herself in was a little over the top.\u00a0 Overall, a good effort and I hope to read more going forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When FBI agent Dani Vega goes undercover to infiltrate a team of killers responsible for the death of a congressional chief of staff, she understands that she is putting her life at risk.\u00a0 When that team is led into a trap and forced to fight each other to the death in an elaborate game planned [&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":[12163,11658,1578],"class_list":["post-23386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-39","tag-a-killers-game","tag-isabella-maldonado","tag-jeffery-deaver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23388,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23386\/revisions\/23388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}