Private Screening - Hardcover

Patterson, Richard North

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394542754 ISBN 13: 9780394542751

Publisher: Random House Inc, 1985

Synopsis

Examines the media and its control of life in America in a story of suspense and murder surrounding Stacy Tarrant, superstar rock singer, James Kilcannon, U.S. senator, Tony Lord, defense attorney, and Phoenix, a masked terrorist

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From the award-winning lawyer turned author of the New York Times bestsellers Degree of Guilt and Silent Witness comes a riveting combination of courtroom drama, political assassination and high-tech terrorism.

The nation is stunned when presidential hopeful James Kilcannon is shot dead while sharing the stage at a benefit concert with his rock star girlfriend Stacy Tarrant.  Fiercely independent attorney Tony Lord defends the assassin in a sensational trial that erupts into the media event of the decade.  But the most shocking drama has not even begun to unfold as Phoenix takes to the airwaves.  Holding the wife of a wealthy newspaper mogul and Stacey's manager hostage, Phoenix mounts a televised trial of his won in which Stacy Tarrant and Tony Lord are helpless defendants, millions of viewers are jurors, and - unless his chilling demands are

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The shocking brutal murder of a presidential hopeful. A fiercely independent attorney defending the assassin in the media event of the decade. And a ruthless figure who seizes the airwaves and commits the ultimate act of high-tech terror.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0394542754
• ISBN 13: 9780394542751
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 322