{"id":17487,"date":"2022-11-08T19:11:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17487"},"modified":"2022-11-08T19:11:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T00:11:41","slug":"romeos-rage-by-james-scott-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=17487","title":{"rendered":"‘Romeo’s Rage,’ by James Scott Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sometimes somebody has an idea<\/strong> that just works. When an author comes up with a series character who engages mind and heart, and places him or her in stories that mean something to the reader, he\u2019s got gold. James Scott Bell has produced gold in the Mike Romeo series, about a one-time cage fighter and certified genius on a quest for virtue. Romeo\u2019s Rage<\/a><\/em> entertained me and moved me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Romeo gets a call from a friend, a reformed gang member who now does Christian ministry with urban youth. It\u2019s a hush-hush thing \u2013 the friend knows about a \u201cpackage,\u201d a child being delivered for prostitution purposes. He doesn\u2019t have to ask twice for help in intervening. Mike and his friend execute a professional extraction and get the little girl to an \u201cunderground railroad\u201d site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then things turn bad. The girl is taken again, and Mike\u2019s friend is killed. They underestimated the bad guys.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike was mad about this criminal operation from the start. Now he\u2019s really mad. And they won\u2019t like him when he\u2019s mad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Mike makes his plans and implements them, he\u2019s assisted and restrained (somewhat) by his boss, Ira Levin, a wheelchair-bound ex-Mossad agent and current lawyer. Also he\u2019s reevaluating his relationship with his girlfriend Sophie. He truly loves her, but feels her being close to him will make her a target \u2013 if not now, someday. If he loves her, he feels, he\u2019s got to break it off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, Sophie might have something to say about that herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want to be Mike Romeo when I get younger. Romeo’s Rage<\/em> was thrilling and moving. I shed manly tears. Highly recommended.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes somebody has an idea that just works. When an author comes up with a series character who engages mind and heart, and places him or her in stories that mean something to the reader, he\u2019s got gold. James Scott Bell has produced gold in the Mike Romeo series, about a one-time cage fighter and … Continue reading ‘Romeo’s Rage,’ by James Scott Bell<\/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":[1385,1877,4424],"class_list":["post-17487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-james-scott-bell","tag-mike-romeo","tag-romeos-rage"],"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\/17487","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=17487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17488,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17487\/revisions\/17488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}