{"id":5394,"date":"2025-05-07T20:59:01","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T20:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=5394"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:10:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:10:52","slug":"book-talk-david-baldacci-simply-lies-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-david-baldacci-simply-lies-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: David Baldacci, \u2018Simply Lies\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5394\" class=\"elementor elementor-5394\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-115bbada e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"115bbada\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-31b63516 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"31b63516\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u201cMickey Gibson wiped the spit-up off Darby\u2019s face, and then gave her two-year-old daughter a plastic squeaky ball, hoping that would hold her attention for a bit.\u201d Although the books that she\u2019d read claimed that toddlers were old enough to entertain themselves, she lifted 3-year-old Tommy onto her hip in order to stop him from strangling her legs. In considering the \u201cexpert\u201d advice, Mickey thought, \u201cWhoever wrote that was on drugs, or else my kids have no future as adults.\u201d<\/p><p>Such is the life of a single mom with an infant and a toddler. But Mickey is no ordinary single mom, if there is such a thing. She was an outstanding basketball player in high school, an ex-cop who rose to the position of detective with the Philadelphia police department, and now a tracker of billions of dollars hidden by criminals in offshore accounts beneath layers of shell companies and in other devious places.<\/p><p>She works from home on her computers and specialty software from her employer, ProEye, where she is the star investigator. Her job is to track down crooks and recover whatever they\u2019ve stolen. She\u2019s good at the job but was terrible at choosing a mate. When they married, her husband said that he wanted a big family, and they started out by having back-to-back babies. However, when the \u201cDaddy-Do\u201d list began to ruin his weekends, he bugged out. But, so far, she\u2019s been able to juggle the various elements of her life. Then a phone call changed everything.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMickey Gibson wiped the spit-up off Darby\u2019s face, and then gave her two-year-old daughter a plastic squeaky ball, hoping that would hold her attention for a bit.\u201d Although the books that she\u2019d read claimed that toddlers were old enough to entertain themselves, she lifted 3-year-old Tommy onto her hip in order to stop him from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-5394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}