{"id":21049,"date":"2016-09-02T07:26:33","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T11:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21049"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:23:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:23:23","slug":"the-grey-man-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/09\/02\/the-grey-man-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grey Man &#8211; Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"21050\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/09\/02\/the-grey-man-partners\/tgmpartners4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TGMPartners4.jpg?fit=640%2C988&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,988\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"TGMPartners4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TGMPartners4.jpg?fit=640%2C988&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-21050\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TGMPartners4.jpg?resize=500%2C772&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"TGMPartners4\" width=\"500\" height=\"772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TGMPartners4.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/TGMPartners4.jpg?resize=194%2C300&amp;ssl=1 194w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Surprise!<\/strong><\/em> The book you&#8217;ve all been waiting for, fourth in The Grey Man\u00a0series &#8211; <strong>The Grey Man &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Partners <\/strong>was released on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Grey-Man--Partners-JL-Curtis-ebook\/dp\/B01LDT6YYC\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;linkCode=li2&amp;tag=nobaskme-20&amp;linkId=44579921f4dbb749d9ca74e146642aed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon<\/a> last night.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><em>Texas Deputy Sheriff John Cronin and his granddaughter Jesse Miller have out-stubborned, out-fought, and out-lived every challenge life&#8217;s thrown at them so far&#8230; But there are times when a little help is needed.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Slowly recovering from being stabbed, John Cronin gets a tip from inside the very cartel that&#8217;s hunted him, that plans are afoot to smuggle terrorists and missiles across the border. Meanwhile, Jesse and her husband Gunny Sgt. Miller are losing the battle with an administration and a military bureaucracy determined downsize the military by whatever means possible, and tie their hands regardless of the damage and danger to its own.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The agencies responsible don&#8217;t want to act if Cronin won&#8217;t give up his confidential informant, but when word comes that the missiles and terrorists are landing, it&#8217;s time to put a team together and handle things the old fashioned way&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Jim, on another fine novel &#8211; as always, it was a pleasure working with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surprise! The book you&#8217;ve all been waiting for, fourth in The Grey Man\u00a0series &#8211; The Grey Man &#8211;\u00a0Partners was released on Amazon last night.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3949,4,2093],"tags":[805,3077,3950],"class_list":["post-21049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-design","category-news","category-photography-2","tag-books","tag-j-l-curtis","tag-the-grey-man-partners"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5tv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17395,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/10\/01\/the-grey-man-payback\/","url_meta":{"origin":21049,"position":0},"title":"The Grey Man &#8211; Payback","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"October 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"J.L. 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