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Probing the brutal murder of a young woman, reporter Stuart Reed realizes that his investigation is leading to the holders of power in the city
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Newspaperman Stuart Reed is as immature, arrogant and sexist a hero as Sammy Glick, but Wright ( The Last Frame ) doesn't inspire readers to care about what makes Stuart run. As a reporter on a small New Jersey daily, Stuart breaks all the rules in attempts to land a job on the New York Times . Trying to solve the murder of a girl who has been suffocated and then gutted like a deer, he gets too chummy with a detective, tries a spot of burglary, fabricates quotes, steals evidence and is finally fired when his paper faces a libel charge. A year later, as Stuart works as obit editor on a small paper in rural New York State, a girl he picks up in a supermarket is stabbed after she leaves him. Convinced he's being framed for the first murder, Stuart sets out to track down and kill the man he suspects of the crime. The novel ends with a burst of action and a surprise twist, but readers are likely to be repelled by Stuart and may not stay the course.
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When newspaperman Stuart Reed, out running on his lunch hour, stumbles on the mutilated body of Diana Diaz, he becomes obsessed with the story and, eventually--after focusing on a news photo taken by free-lancer Milt Roberts--decides that she was killed by TV wildlife host Culp Jenkins (the unfortunate Diana was gutted like a dead deer). Jenkins leans on Reed's editor; Reed is fired, goes on a bender, and retreats to the dinky Clarion, where he learns of another death and surmises that Jenkins is at it again. He begins stalking Jenkins, who, to rid himself of this pest, decides to help him track the real killer, leading to arson, another murder, and a horrific highway decapitation. One of the few mysteries in memory to use the flashback technique creatively and combine past and current murders. Second- novelist Wright (The Last Frame, not reviewed) is a fierce new talent with a long, possibly bestseller, career ahead. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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- PublisherCarroll & Graf Pub
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0881847445
- ISBN 13 9780881847444
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages237
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