{"id":1945,"date":"2019-03-15T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=1945"},"modified":"2019-07-15T22:24:15","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:24:15","slug":"book-review-killer-chef-james-patterson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/?p=1945","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Killer Chef \u00e2\u20ac\u201d James Patterson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/keep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/killer-chef.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1946\" width=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/batrock.net\/keep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/killer-chef.jpg 318w, https:\/\/batrock.net\/keep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/killer-chef-206x300.jpg 206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Everybody knows that James Patterson doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t write his own books. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what Leonard Cohen was singing about. But <em>Killer Chef<\/em>, a book shot written \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jeffrey J. Keyes, is fun enough that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about it. The adventures of a man who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a homicide detective by day and food truck chef by night (because policing is famously a 9 to 5 gig), there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a faint ridiculous to <em>Killer Chef <\/em>that it never quite shakes, but it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and maybe it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re introduced to Caleb Rooney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Killer Chef food truck with the knowledge that it is emblazoned with a shrimp and crossbones. This is such an arresting image that you wish there was an illustration accompanying it. <em>Killer Chef <\/em>includes gems like \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Patsy doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any buttermilk for the traditional southern biscuits he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d hoped to bake, so Killer Chef does some killer improvising\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Caleb tightens the straps of his Kevlar vest. He rechecks the clip of his trusty Glock 22. He pops one final jalape\u00c3\u00b1o into his mouth.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At its tiny length, <em>Killer Chef <\/em>can only offer the broadest strokes, but that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s to its benefit. There are unfortunate optics in its conclusion, the final paragraph both makes a stretch in its estimation of the Rooney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s emotions <em>and <\/em>has an uncomfortable semi-innuendo to it, but <em>Killer Chef <\/em>is a silly New Orleans romp that is just wild enough to make you hunger for the Caleb Rooney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s full length debut, <em>The Chef<\/em>.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows that James Patterson doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t write his own books. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what Leonard Cohen was singing about. But Killer Chef, a book shot written \u00e2\u20ac\u0153with\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Jeffrey J. Keyes, is fun enough that we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to worry about it. The adventures of a man who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a homicide detective by day and food truck chef by night (because policing is famously a 9 to 5 gig), there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a faint ridiculous to Killer Chef that it never quite shakes, but it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and maybe it doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re introduced to Caleb Rooney\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Killer Chef food truck with the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1HLZ6-vn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/batrock.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}