{"id":17362,"date":"2024-06-03T07:13:44","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T06:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=17362"},"modified":"2024-06-03T11:36:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T10:36:59","slug":"book-review-napoleons-spy-tim-kane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=17362","title":{"rendered":"BOOK REViEW: Napoleon\u2019s Spy, Tim Kane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_2971-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16602\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_2971-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_2971-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_2971-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/img_2971.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"155\" height=\"30\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/stars_05_twohalf-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17361\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/stars_05_twohalf-1.jpg 155w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/stars_05_twohalf-1-150x30.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 155px) 100vw, 155px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Hmmm!?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I paid \u00a31 for this at a book stall in our local Tesco. And I kind of feel had! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m surprised in fact that I\u2019m persisting with reading it, to be honest. Life\u2019s too short, frankly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The author\u2019s style is very run of the mill, and unremarkable. But much worse than that, his central character &#8211; the protagonist for whom we should be rooting &#8211; is a bell-end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A feckless and not to be credited (in any sense of that expression) gambling addict, who moves from down on his luck gambling dildo to ADC to Caulaincourt, on the eve of the 1812 invasion of Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I collect stuff on 1812, so I thought I\u2019d take a punt. And it\u2019s also useful for me right now to have brainless diversions from the fall-out of the last eighteen months of travails. So it\u2019s really just on those two counts that I persist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm!? I paid \u00a31 for this at a book stall in our local Tesco. And I kind of feel had! I\u2019m surprised in fact that I\u2019m persisting with reading it, to be honest. Life\u2019s too short, frankly! The author\u2019s style is very run of the mill, and unremarkable. But much worse than that, his central &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=17362\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BOOK REViEW: Napoleon\u2019s Spy, Tim Kane&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-4w2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17363,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17362\/revisions\/17363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}