{"id":1229,"date":"2010-10-30T08:56:50","date_gmt":"2010-10-30T13:56:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fabricegrinda.com\/?p=1229"},"modified":"2023-08-08T05:15:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T05:15:04","slug":"the-garden-of-betrayal-is-thrilling-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/the-garden-of-betrayal-is-thrilling-read\/","title":{"rendered":"The Garden of Betrayal is a thrilling read!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had not come across a great fun thriller since <em>The Da Vinci Code<\/em> and <em>Angels and Demons<\/em> a few years ago. <em>The Garden of Betrayal<\/em> was a welcome surprise. I had read the review in The Economist and was intrigued.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Vance, the author, is a former trader at Goldman Sachs. His insider\u2019s perspective felt real and compelling. I was all the more engrossed as the material Mark Wallace, the protagonist, enters in possession of on Saudi oil reserves was very reminiscent of a Peak Oil article published by Clarium Capital that I had recently come across.<\/p>\n<p>The multi-layered story with Mark\u2019s investigation into the disappearance of his child, his family difficulties and the complicated geopolitical machinations all happening simultaneously had me engrossed and struggling to keep up. I got so into the story that I ended reading the book in one go on my Kindle, finishing it at 4:30 am this morning!<\/p>\n<p>If you are up for a fun autumn read, definitely check this book out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had not come across a great fun thriller since The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons a few years ago. The Garden of Betrayal was a welcome surprise. &hellip; <a href=\"\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books"],"acf":[],"contentUpdated":"The Garden of Betrayal is a thrilling read!. Categories - Books. Date-Posted - 2010-10-30T08:56:50 . I had not come across a great fun thriller since The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons a few years ago. The Garden of Betrayal was a welcome surprise. I had read the review in The Economist and was intrigued.\n Lee Vance, the author, is a former trader at Goldman Sachs. His insider\u2019s perspective felt real and compelling. I was all the more engrossed as the material Mark Wallace, the protagonist, enters in possession of on Saudi oil reserves was very reminiscent of a Peak Oil article published by Clarium Capital that I had recently come across.\n The multi-layered story with Mark\u2019s investigation into the disappearance of his child, his family difficulties and the complicated geopolitical machinations all happening simultaneously had me engrossed and struggling to keep up. I got so into the story that I ended reading the book in one go on my Kindle, finishing it at 4:30 am this morning!\n If you are up for a fun autumn read, definitely check this book out!\n ","Category":["Books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17033,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1229\/revisions\/17033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grinda.org\/ur\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}