{"id":16713,"date":"2022-05-04T19:09:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16713"},"modified":"2022-05-04T19:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-04T23:09:00","slug":"wrong-place-wrong-time-by-w-glenn-duncan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=16713","title":{"rendered":"‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time,’ by W. Glenn Duncan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I wasn\u2019t impressed enough <\/strong>by the first Rafferty novel, by W. Glenn Duncan, that I read, to plan on reading more. But somehow I am doing so. And I\u2019m enjoying the books, originally published in the 1980s. I actually read the first book, Rafferty\u2019s Rules<\/em>, and failed to review it recently. But it won me over, especially with a pleasant plot twist at the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrong Place, Wrong Time<\/a><\/em> is the fourth book in the series. Rafferty (no first name, like Spenser) is a Dallas private eye whose business is somewhat marginal. He\u2019s in no position to turn down fast, honest money, so when a guy comes in identifying himself as a bounty hunter, wanting backup for a quick apprehension job, he agrees. Not long later he sees his client blowing the target away with a shotgun, and then Rafferty is driving for his life as the guy pursues him, to tie up loose ends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After extricating himself from that problem, Rafferty gets a request for help from a woman in the next office, with whom he\u2019s been carrying on a pleasant flirtation for years through a window. Her grandfather needs protection, she explains. Local kids have been harassing him. She\u2019s afraid they\u2019ll hurt him, but she\u2019s also afraid he\u2019ll hurt them \u2013 he\u2019s a tough old guy who\u2019s been around the block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Rafferty gets to know old \u201cThorney,\u201d he comes to respect and admire the guy, who\u2019s not exactly enthusiastic about having a \u201cnursemaid.\u201d And when things escalate to shots fired, Rafferty can\u2019t be sure whether the target is Thorney or himself \u2013 could his murderous client be back for another shot at him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wrong Place, Wrong<\/em> Time <\/em>was good, hard-boiled fun. What intrigues me most \u2013 and makes me a bit uncomfortable \u2013 is how male-female interactions are handled. Author Duncan gives Rafferty a raffish, flirty attitude, and women generally respond in good humor. The assumption is that, in spite of feminist rhetoric, men and women still like each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s true anymore in the 2020s. I don\u2019t think you could write that way nowadays.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In any case, Wrong Place, Wrong Time<\/em> was fun to read, and not very demanding. Mild cautions for language and adult themes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wasn\u2019t impressed enough by the first Rafferty novel, by W. Glenn Duncan, that I read, to plan on reading more. But somehow I am doing so. And I\u2019m enjoying the books, originally published in the 1980s. I actually read the first book, Rafferty\u2019s Rules, and failed to review it recently. But it won me … Continue reading ‘Wrong Place, Wrong Time,’ by W. Glenn Duncan<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,15],"tags":[4102,4101,4169],"class_list":["post-16713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-rafferty","tag-w-glenn-duncan","tag-wrong-place-wrong-time"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16714,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16713\/revisions\/16714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}