{"id":3332,"date":"2015-10-26T21:17:47","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T01:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3332"},"modified":"2015-10-26T21:17:47","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T01:17:47","slug":"jelly-bryce-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/jelly-bryce-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"JELLY BRYCE RETURNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

A while back, I did a review of my old friend Mike Conti\u2019s first historical novel, focused on the early years of early 20th<\/sup> Century gunfighter Jelly Bryce, who started out as a city cop in Oklahoma and moved on to J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s fledgling FBI.\u00a0 Now comes the second book in Mike\u2019s trilogy, \u201cJelly Bryce: FBI Oddyssey.\u201d\u00a0\"Jelly<\/a><\/p>\n

A long-time Massachusetts state trooper, and still a top-ranked firearms instructor in his retirement, Conti knows his stuff and effectively brings Bryce back to life.\u00a0 Mike has deeply studied his subject. Hoover did indeed bring gunfighters on board when he realized accountants and lawyers with guns weren\u2019t up to the challenges posed by ultra-violent criminals like John Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Bonnie (Parker) and Clyde (Barrow).\u00a0 One such \u201clateral transfer,\u201d Charles Winstead, was the man who killed Dillinger.<\/p>\n

One particular thorn in Hoover\u2019s side was Vincent \u201cMad Dog\u201d Coll.\u00a0 Mike tells me that some folks believe Bryce might have been sent after Coll.\u00a0 Conti himself doubts that, as I do: Bryce isn\u2019t known to have spent a lot of time in Coll\u2019s northeastern bailiwick, and the timing isn\u2019t quite right.\u00a0 However, Mike thought it ought to be addressed.\u00a0 I won\u2019t spoil it for you, but suffice to say that the manner in which Mike wrote that element into this book could be used to teach creative writing.<\/p>\n

The new book closes with Hoover and Bryce still in the honeymoon phase. Alas, history shows that when an individual agent got more press than J. Edgar himself, the big boss was not pleased.\u00a0 Melvin Purvis was one example, and Bryce was fated to be another\u2026but that, I expect, will have to wait for the final volume of Conti\u2019s trilogy.<\/p>\n

For now, I have to say I enjoyed heck out of \u201cJelly Bryce: FBI Odyssey\u201d by Mike Conti, and I suspect you will, too. It\u2019s available on Amazon.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A while back, I did a review of my old friend Mike Conti\u2019s first historical novel, focused on the early years of early 20th Century gunfighter Jelly Bryce, who started out as a city cop in Oklahoma and moved on to J. Edgar Hoover\u2019s fledgling FBI.\u00a0 Now comes the second book in Mike\u2019s trilogy, \u201cJelly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reviews"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}