{"id":353,"date":"2009-12-22T16:26:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-22T16:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading2\/?p=353"},"modified":"2009-12-22T16:26:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T16:26:00","slug":"havana-bay-by-martin-cruz-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/2009\/12\/havana-bay-by-martin-cruz-smith.html","title":{"rendered":"Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0345502981\/tradgirl\" target=\"'new'\">Havana Bay<\/a> is by the author of Gorky Park, which I&#8217;d read before, and features the same Russian detective.  In this story, he travels to Cuba.  I guess since communism is gone in Russia, the author had to move his story line.  Politically based mysteries aren&#8217;t really my favorite but as a spy story, Havana Bay is not high in convoluted plotting.  As a novel, the characters are interesting and the story unfurls at an unrushed but attention-keeping pace.  When finished, you remember the detective&#8217;s inner drama more than whodunit, which is more satisfying (and allows you to read the book again some day).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Havana Bay is by the author of Gorky Park, which I&#8217;d read before, and features the same Russian detective. In this story, he travels to Cuba. I guess since communism is gone in Russia, the author had to move his story line. Politically based mysteries aren&#8217;t really my favorite but as a spy story, Havana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-mysteryhorrorsuspense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dawnalguard.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}