{"id":19362,"date":"2024-02-22T19:58:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19362"},"modified":"2024-02-22T19:58:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-23T00:58:03","slug":"welcome-to-the-party-by-indy-perro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19362","title":{"rendered":"‘Welcome to the Party,’ by Indy Perro"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cYou think I\u2019m in the wrong line of work?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI think running a bar can be more fun than most jobs, including mine. It can also be a lot of work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople deserve a cold one after a long day.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPeople enjoy a cold one. I\u2019m not sure what any of us deserve.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I knew nothing of Indy Perro, <\/strong>author of the novella Welcome to the Party<\/a><\/em>, before I picked it up on a free offer. But I was happy with what I got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s 1973 (this is, I think, a prequel story). Vincent Bayonne is a rookie cop in (the fictional) Central City. He\u2019s recently back from Vietnam. He misses the action, and became a cop for the danger, and maybe to make a difference. But so far, the work has been pretty routine. He and his veteran partner are assigned to what\u2019s considered a plum day\u2019s assignment \u2013 providing security for a mayoral candidate who\u2019ll be making a speech at a VFW post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The candidate, it turns out, is both a lush and a lech. The crowd will turn out a little more rambunctious than expected. And Vincent will get the opportunity to save a life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Welcome to the Party<\/em> is a simple story. The writing is spare and clean, the characters believable and sympathetic. I was impressed. I\u2019ve purchased the next book in the series, and look forward to seeing where this is going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cYou think I\u2019m in the wrong line of work?\u201d \u201cI think running a bar can be more fun than most jobs, including mine. It can also be a lot of work.\u201d \u201cPeople deserve a cold one after a long day.\u201d \u201cPeople enjoy a cold one. I\u2019m not sure what any of us deserve.\u201d I knew … Continue reading ‘Welcome to the Party,’ by Indy Perro<\/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":[5079,5080,5081],"class_list":["post-19362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction","category-reviews","tag-indy-perro","tag-vincent-bayonne","tag-welcome-to-the-party"],"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\/19362","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=19362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19363,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19362\/revisions\/19363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}