{"id":125,"date":"2010-10-23T12:33:55","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T11:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2011-01-04T22:38:24","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T22:38:24","slug":"present-tense-book-review-bulldog-drummond-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/present-tense-book-review-bulldog-drummond-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Present Tense Book Review &#8211; Bulldog Drummond: Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(<a href='\/blog\/archives\/61'>Part Two<\/a> of this Present Tense Book Review.)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMany adventure novels sag a bit in the middle, but Sapper has kept up the pace up with a kidnap subplot and the introduction of a set of Drummond&#8217;s old army pals, who make the plot slightly more credible (i.e. it&#8217;s not just one man against an international crime syndicate), and add a bit of light relief with their banter. All the while, you are drip-fed hints as to the nature of the villains&#8217; grand scheme, building up (hopefully) to a climactic finale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Part Two of this Present Tense Book Review.) Many adventure novels sag a bit in the middle, but Sapper has kept up the pace up with a kidnap subplot and the introduction of a set of Drummond&#8217;s old army pals, who make the plot slightly more credible (i.e. it&#8217;s not just one man against an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyshines.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}