{"id":254,"date":"2012-01-05T18:06:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=254"},"modified":"2012-01-05T18:06:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T00:06:25","slug":"bernard-f-conners-tailspin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/bernard-f-conners-tailspin\/","title":{"rendered":"Bernard F. Conners: Tailspin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tailspin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-255\" title=\"tailspin\" src=\"\/aa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tailspin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"82\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>Although <em>Tailspin<\/em> is being pushed as the final solution to the Sam Sheppard case (and it is a believable one) I enjoyed it more as a character study of Major James Call, its existential anti-hero, a man without nerves, equally at home in country club or wilderness camp, a war hero who turned to crime to fuel his adrenaline habit. But Conners also shows the price of Call&#8217;s egotism, both to himself and society. Well written, with a central character no fiction writer could come up with, <em>Tailspin<\/em> is the True Crime book of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Tailspin is being pushed as the final solution to the Sam Sheppard case (and it is a believable one) I enjoyed it more as a character study of Major James Call, its existential anti-hero, a man without nerves, equally at home in country club or wilderness camp, a war hero who turned to crime &#8230; <a title=\"Bernard F. Conners: Tailspin\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/bernard-f-conners-tailspin\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bernard F. Conners: Tailspin\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-true-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}