{"id":2179,"date":"2015-10-27T13:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T18:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2015-11-16T04:27:17","modified_gmt":"2015-11-16T10:27:17","slug":"saving-jake-a-parker-mcleod-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Saving Jake: A Parker McLeod Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Saturday, November 14th, 2:00-4:00 PM<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Saving Jake<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>A Parker McLeod Thriller<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by <strong>A. Hardy Roper<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Third book in the series, following <em>The Garhole Bar<\/em> and <em>Assassination in Galveston<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/saving-jake-cover-340w.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/saving-jake-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"saving-jake-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"510\" class=\"alignleft size-full bordered wp-image-2177\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/saving-jake-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/saving-jake-cover-340w-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><\/a>Parker McLeod is the proprietor of The Garhole Bar, a favorite watering hole out on Galveston&#8217;s west end among the salt grass marshes, rattlesnakes and prickly pear. Island life is good and the international intrigues of his last two adventures are beginning to fade from memory when he comes upon a ghostly-thin mother with a troubled 14-year-old son needing a ride. Against his better judgment, he loads the hitchhikers into his old Chevy pickup.<\/p>\n<p>It soon becomes obvious what a pile of trouble his passengers are when a man with a gun wants him to pull over. After a harrowing shootout Parker thinks he&#8217;s gotten rid of the duo, but when the boy appears at The Garhole, he sees \ufb02ashes of his own childhood and is torn between mentoring the boy and breaking all ties.<\/p>\n<p>Enter Clementine Garza, a sexy, baton-wielding, trash\u2014talking P.I. from San Antonio. Clementine is hot on the trail of a case concerning a Boston billionaire seeking the truth behind his son\u2019s disappearance. As Parker and Clementine\u2019s paths merge, the tension ramps up to an explosive ending full of treachery and betrayal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151114_1349452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151114_1349452-921x1024.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20151114_134945~2\" width=\"550\" height=\"612\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2196\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151114_1349452-921x1024.jpg 921w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151114_1349452-270x300.jpg 270w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_20151114_1349452.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Hardy and Winkie with their Garhole Bar T-Shirts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/saving-jake-event-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/saving-jake-event-photo.jpg\" alt=\"saving-jake-event-photo\" width=\"550\" height=\"285\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2197\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/saving-jake-event-photo.jpg 1023w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/saving-jake-event-photo-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>A busy event!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, November 14th, 2:00-4:00 PM Saving Jake A Parker McLeod Thriller by A. Hardy Roper Third book in the series, following The Garhole Bar and Assassination in Galveston. Parker McLeod is the proprietor of The Garhole Bar, a favorite watering &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2179\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saving Jake: A Parker McLeod Thriller<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2179"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2198,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2179\/revisions\/2198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}