{"id":663,"date":"2011-05-05T22:40:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T22:40:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=663"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:46:00","slug":"the-man-with-the-golden-torc-by-simon-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=663","title":{"rendered":"The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-708 size-full\" title=\"The Man with the Golden Torc\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/The-Man-with-the-Golden-Torc2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There really are ghoulies and ghosties and demons and vampires and aliens and\u00a0\u00a0things that go bump in the night. Fortunately, the Drood Family keeps things under control so that the general population can carry on in blissful ignorance of the peril all around. Eddie Drood does his part as an agent in the field to keep the peace until he suddenly finds himself being ferociously hunted as a Family traitor.\u00a0 Then it&#8217;s up to Eddie to keep himself alive long enough to find out who the real villain is.\u00a0 He collects some interesting\u00a0allies along the way.\u00a0 Great fun.\u00a0 First of a series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There really are ghoulies and ghosties and demons and vampires and aliens and\u00a0\u00a0things that go bump in the night. Fortunately, the Drood Family keeps things under control so that the general population can carry on in blissful ignorance of the peril all around. Eddie Drood does his part as an agent in the field to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=663\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon Green<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-lois"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}