{"id":25711,"date":"2019-08-27T07:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=25711"},"modified":"2019-08-27T07:08:34","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T11:08:34","slug":"the-grey-man-down-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/08\/27\/the-grey-man-down-south\/","title":{"rendered":"The Grey Man &#8211; Down South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"25712\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/08\/27\/the-grey-man-down-south\/tgm-down-south-cover\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGM-Down-South-Cover.jpg?fit=500%2C797&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,797\" 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=\"TGM-Down-South-Cover\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGM-Down-South-Cover.jpg?fit=500%2C797&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25712\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGM-Down-South-Cover.jpg?resize=500%2C797&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGM-Down-South-Cover.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGM-Down-South-Cover.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>The Grey Man &#8211; Down South<\/em><\/strong> is the seventh book I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of designing in a series by J. L. Curtis.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After too much action, too much peace gets on a man\u2019s nerves. John Cronin\u2019s back from Vietnam and bored, when Billy Moore suggests he check out the brand new Drug Enforcement Administration. He\u2019d expected paperwork and meetings; he got on-the-job training in South America with stakeouts gone wrong and ambushes exploding into firefights.<\/p>\n<p>This isn\u2019t Cronin\u2019s first rodeo, and now he\u2019s taking the fight to the cartels, from the laboratories hidden deep in the highland jungles to the enforcers in the cities and secure compounds!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Kindle version is available <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B07WPQK2YL\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?keywords=JL+Curtis&amp;qid=1566764704&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-15&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=nobaskme-20&amp;linkId=bf10b966da05e237a96b36f3f5049cc0&amp;language=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Grey Man &#8211; Down South is the seventh book I&#8217;ve had the pleasure of designing in a series by J. L. Curtis. After too much action, too much peace gets on a man\u2019s nerves. John Cronin\u2019s back from Vietnam &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/08\/27\/the-grey-man-down-south\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25712,"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],"tags":[3306,3077,4752],"class_list":["post-25711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-design","category-news","tag-book-design","tag-j-l-curtis","tag-the-grey-man-down-south"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/TGM-Down-South-Cover.jpg?fit=500%2C797&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6GH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15773,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2014\/03\/14\/the-grey-man\/","url_meta":{"origin":25711,"position":0},"title":"The Grey Man","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"March 14, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This book cover is a project that I've been working on recently. 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