{"id":12032,"date":"2011-06-16T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-16T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=12032"},"modified":"2011-06-10T12:10:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T18:10:40","slug":"fathers-and-sons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/fathers-and-sons\/","title":{"rendered":"Fathers and Sons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|424576 \" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-12042\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Daddy.jpg?resize=160%2C262&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|424576\" target=\"_blank\">Daddy<\/a><\/strong><\/em> by Loup Durand\u00a0was a bestseller in France but, amazingly, never a huge hit in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, an 11-year-old genius,\u00a0is being chased by Nazis,\u00a0after they discover\u00a0the boy&#8217;s grandfather has entrusted him\u00a0with information about Jewish fortunes held in Swiss bank accounts.<\/p>\n<p>American millionaire David Quartermain, the father\u00a0Thomas has never known,\u00a0is summoned by the child&#8217;s mother\u00a0when\u00a0she realizes\u00a0her life is in danger.\u00a0Not only an incredibly tense cat-and-mouse chase novel, this is\u00a0also the story of how father and son learn to trust and love each other.<\/p>\n<p>Intricately plotted, there are iconic characters (a sociopathic Nazi, a mysterious sniper\/bodyguard and wealthy playboy turned patriot), mysteries, secrets, and \u00a0the always-fascinating setting of World War II Europe.\u00a0A great and satisfying page-turner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daddy by Loup Durand\u00a0was a bestseller in France but, amazingly, never a huge hit in the U.S.\u00a0\u00a0 Thomas, an 11-year-old genius,\u00a0is being chased by Nazis,\u00a0after they discover\u00a0the boy&#8217;s grandfather has entrusted him\u00a0with information about Jewish fortunes held in Swiss bank accounts. American millionaire David Quartermain, the father\u00a0Thomas has never known,\u00a0is<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/fathers-and-sons\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[1647,1648,102],"class_list":["post-12032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-fathers","tag-sons","tag-world-war-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-384","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12032"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12046,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12032\/revisions\/12046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}