{"id":680,"date":"2025-09-11T18:03:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=680"},"modified":"2025-10-06T18:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T22:29:10","slug":"ten-cent-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"Ten Cent Pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve published a new Johnny Batch short story set in the Joshua Jones Mystery Series. You can get it for a buck wherever you buy your ebooks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TenCentPistolCover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"729\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TenCentPistolCover-729x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-669\" style=\"width:333px;height:auto\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TenCentPistolCover-729x1024.jpg 729w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TenCentPistolCover-214x300.jpg 214w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TenCentPistolCover-768x1079.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TenCentPistolCover-1093x1536.jpg 1093w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/TenCentPistolCover.jpg 1453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 729px) 100vw, 729px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second short story set in that series. The first one is called &#8220;The Safe Cracker&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both of these are available now. I&#8217;m currently writing the third Joshua Jones novel &#8211; Return False, and hopefully it will be out next year. More to come on that later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, we&#8217;re working on the paperback version of <em>Kill Dash Nine<\/em>, the second Joshua Jones novel. That will be available in a few weeks. I&#8217;ll let you know when it&#8217;s ready.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-from-2025-09-11-16-02-38.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"775\" src=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-from-2025-09-11-16-02-38-1024x775.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-681\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-from-2025-09-11-16-02-38-1024x775.png 1024w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-from-2025-09-11-16-02-38-300x227.png 300w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-from-2025-09-11-16-02-38-768x581.png 768w, http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screenshot-from-2025-09-11-16-02-38.png 1456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve published a new Johnny Batch short story set in the Joshua Jones Mystery Series. You can get it for a buck wherever you buy your ebooks. This is the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions\/682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.johnnybatch.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}