{"id":3949,"date":"2025-05-28T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T22:43:53","slug":"professor-publishes-new-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/blog\/2025\/05\/28\/professor-publishes-new-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Publishes New Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Creative Writing Professor Andrew Bourelle published a new novel, a thriller titled, <em>SHOT CLOCK<\/em>, in May 2025. Here is the book&#8217;s description:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Basketball star Garrett\u2019s brother has been kidnapped \u2013 and if he doesn\u2019t fix the NBA championship, Jake will be dead before the final buzzer, in this edge-of-the-seat thriller set in the dark, criminal underbelly of Sin City<br><br>Caitlin Glass had aspirations of becoming a professional basketball player until an injury ended her college career. Now a small-town police officer with a husband and young son, she\u2019s watched with envy as her ex-boyfriend, Garrett Streeter, became a star. But as Garrett leads his team to the NBA Finals, he suddenly shows up at her door, asking for help.<br><br>Garrett\u2019s brother has been kidnapped. If Garrett wants Jake to survive, he has to do the unthinkable: cheat, and fix the championship series.<br><br>If they don\u2019t track Jake down before the final buzzer, he\u2019ll be dead. Putting aside her deep misgivings, she dives into the dark, criminal underbelly of glitzy Las Vegas while the clock is ticking, and the seconds Jake has to live are running out . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Find out more about the book through <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/severnhouse.com\/books\/shot-clock\/\" target=\"_blank\">Severn House<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Creative Writing Professor Andrew Bourelle published a new novel, a thriller titled, SHOT CLOCK, in May 2025. Here is the book&#8217;s description: Basketball star Garrett\u2019s brother has been kidnapped \u2013 and if he doesn\u2019t fix the NBA championship, Jake will be dead before the final buzzer, in this edge-of-the-seat thriller set in the dark, criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcements","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3951,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions\/3951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.unm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}