{"id":39,"date":"2023-11-27T07:55:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T07:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/?page_id=39"},"modified":"2023-11-28T02:19:29","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T02:19:29","slug":"reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignfull has-parallax\" style=\"min-height:857px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim\"><\/span><div role=\"img\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-54 has-parallax\" style=\"background-position:50% 50%;background-image:url(https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/AdobeStock_276211407-1-scaled.jpeg)\"><\/div><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-cover-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"331\" height=\"245\" src=\"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/title_1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-52\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/title_1.png 331w, https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/title_1-300x222.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 331px) 100vw, 331px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-8cff0ce3ffd402ce0b5f38a5fc7ab925\">&#8216;&#8221;Richard and Jennifer are flawed, sexy, compelling characters who remain likable in spite of their moral bankruptcy. Scenes move at a fast clip, and the location descriptions are travelogue-perfect&#8230;An international thriller with a strong start, a quick pace, and a finish that\u2019s in the money&#8221; &#8211; <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/book-reviews\/alan-benning\/american-ringer\/\">Kirkus Reviews<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-3098c6f106aa5eb70128e4f09a075023\">&nbsp;&#8220;&#8230;Its prose is active and playful, making good use of various English accents and excellent descriptions of the horse tracks, Spanish villas, elegant houses, expensive cars, and delicious meals that Richard exists among\u2014as well as of the prisons, both cushy and archaic, and basement torture rooms that he encounters.&#8221; &#8211;&nbsp;<em>Foreword<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1d0450ca90f2f2c5616ec39989916091\"><em>Clarion Review<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-wide\" style=\"background-color:#ee4a92;color:#ee4a92\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-white-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-51202637cda1f9771a6d59de7a010557\" style=\"font-size:clamp(14px, 0.875rem + ((1vw - 3.2px) * 0.531), 20px);\">Read the book?<br>Don&#8217;t forget to leave a review on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Ringer-Alan-Benning\/dp\/1039178014\/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1698351441&amp;sr=8-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon<\/a>&nbsp;or on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alanbenning.com\/contact.html\">Contact Page<\/a>.<br>Thanks for your support!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"393\" height=\"312\" src=\"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1692221161.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-50\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1692221161.png 393w, https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1692221161-300x238.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/39\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanbenning.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}