{"id":5,"date":"2016-05-26T19:43:34","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T19:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2016-05-26T19:43:34","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T19:43:34","slug":"antons-falcon-by-melvin-douglas-smart","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/","title":{"rendered":"Anton&#8217;s Falcon by Melvin Douglas Smart"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About the Book<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6\" src=\"http:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/951\/2016\/05\/Smart-Cover-Web.jpg\" alt=\"Smart-Cover-Web\" width=\"300\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/951\/2016\/05\/Smart-Cover-Web.jpg 360w, https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/951\/2016\/05\/Smart-Cover-Web-188x300.jpg 188w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Enter a treasure-filled story. One packed with pirates, ghosts, and spies, and sprinkled liberally with a mysterious mixture of truth and lies.<\/p>\n<p>Malcolm Westcott is a British merchant seaman now back on shore, who takes the job of renovating a derelict cottage on the edge of Dartmoor. It is there in a dusty attic that he makes an unexpected discovery.<\/p>\n<p>He meets a stranger named Stamford, a beautiful Russian spy, and then encounters a series of strange events that appear to be a warning. Lacking perception, he fails to register their meaning, and it all ends in a frightening conclusion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About the Author<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melvin Douglas Smart<\/strong> was born in Exeter, England. After studying electrical engineering in college, he became a ship\u2019s radio officer and spent the next ten years serving in the merchant navy. He has two children from a previous marriage and in more recent years worked mostly within the defence industry. He is now retired and lives in the small village of Suares in Northern Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the Book Enter a treasure-filled story. One packed with pirates, ghosts, and spies, and sprinkled liberally with a mysterious mixture of truth and lies. Malcolm Westcott is a British merchant seaman now back on shore, who takes the job of renovating a derelict cottage on the edge of Dartmoor. It is there in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7,"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbprabooks.com\/melvindouglassmart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}