{"id":2545,"date":"2017-06-29T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2017-06-29T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T14:54:27","slug":"in-the-company-of-decent-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2545","title":{"rendered":"In the Company of Decent Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Book Signing: Saturday, July 29th, 2017, 2:00-4:00 p.m.<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Andy Horne<\/strong> will join us Saturday with his second novel in the <em>Decent Men<\/em> series.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/decent-men-cover-340w.jpg\" alt=\"decent-men-cover-340w\" width=\"340\" height=\"515\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2546\" srcset=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/decent-men-cover-340w.jpg 340w, http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/decent-men-cover-340w-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 340px) 100vw, 340px\" \/><strong>\u201cIn the Company of Decent Men\u201d<\/strong> begins as the retrospective of a survivor of the deadly brown water war fought in Vietnam&#8217;s Mekong River Delta. Over four decades later, in the midst of the U.S. Presidential election, the war in Vietnam and the ill-fated American Swift Boat raids of the Ca Mau peninsula are re-examined. New realities replace old perceptions but truth, once again, proves unchangeable. <\/p>\n<p>This political action thriller examines the length of life&#8217;s shadows cast beyond a single historical event and one generation. As in Andy Horne&#8217;s first \u201cDecent Men\u201d book, the characters are substantive and unique people who inspire and entertain in equal measure.<br \/>\n<br style=\"clear:left\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Andy Horne<\/strong> is a native Texan, a U.S. Navy veteran of the war in Vietnam, a former federal and state prosecutor, and spent 25 years in private civil and criminal practice. Mr. Horne resides in Galveston, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Signing: Saturday, July 29th, 2017, 2:00-4:00 p.m. Andy Horne will join us Saturday with his second novel in the Decent Men series. \u201cIn the Company of Decent Men\u201d begins as the retrospective of a survivor of the deadly brown &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/?p=2545\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Company of Decent Men<\/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\/2545"}],"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=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/galvestonbookshop.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}