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Investigating the murders of television executives and journalists in the fiercely competitive world of broadcast news, New York City detective Tommy O'Malley encounters stiff competition in the form of a beautiful, tenacious tabloid reporter. Tour. IP.
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Want to know how knives are sharpened and competitors are sabotaged inside those outwardly urbane TV newsrooms? O'Reilly knows it all, and tells you. Electrifying stuff. -ARTHUR HAILEY, author of Airport and Detective
A speed-read thriller that unmasks the cutthroat world of television news. So real you'll forget it's fiction. -VINCENT BUGLIOSI, author of Outrage and Helter Skelter
As real and exciting as the streets of New York City. A mystery thriller that only one of New York's finest could solve. -WILLIAM BRATTON, former NYC Police Commissioner
A novel about murder in the inner sanctum of network TV news by Emmy-winning Bill O'Reilly of Fox's O'Reilly Report ... It may be a news maker itself when published. -PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Action, suspense, and a gripping first-rate tale. O'Reilly's thriller takes the reader into a world that has been shrouded in secrecy-up until now. A must-read, but don't expect a lot of sleep until you've reached the end. -COLONEL DAVID HACKWORTH, Newsweek
I have always enjoyed Mr. O'Reilly on TV, where he now toils for Fox News. And he has written a fiction that has been [widely] praised. Oh, yes, and Liz Smith also loved this one, from Bancroft Press! -LIZ SMITH, New York Post
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A disgruntled ex-newsman declares open season on the colleagues who destroyed his careerin this formula debut by Fox newsman O'Reilly. Who used a spoon (don't ask) to kill Ron Costello, lecherous senior White House correspondent for the Global News Network (GNN), following a party on Martha's Vineyard? The killer might well have been an ex-colleague with a grievance against Costello, but that wouldn't narrow the field mucheven when Costello's followed to the cemetery by Hillary Ross, the v.p. of News Personnel. Everybody NYPD Det. Tommy O'Malley talks to agrees that Ross knew nothing about TV news, and really got off on bringing the axe down on the high-priced talent she terminated. Despite the wide-open field, though, one suspect outruns the pack: Shannon Michaels, a correspondent forced to resign after Ross took management's side against his claim that he was ``bigfooted''elbowed out of a news storyby pretty-boy anchor Lyle Fleming. Michaels had found refuge at Channel 6 News until he was forced out there, too, this time by a phony-baloney demographic survey consultant Martin Moore cooked up. So when Moore gets killed, Michaels rockets to the head of the classexcept for reporter Ashley Van Buren, who can't believe that a man who could give such a sensuous massage could also be a serial killer. The stage is set for a smorgasbord of clichsthe ethically challenged newsmen, the cat-and-mouse between cop and killer (spiked by their romantic rivalry for the romantic prize), the race to protect the climactic victimnone of it, thanks to O'Reilly's wooden writing and lack of originality, surprising or believable for a minute. The biggest mystery: Given all the dirty tricks at every level of GNN (the extent of insider O'Reilly's hot news flash about the biz), why is the body count so low? ($25,000 ad/promo budget; TV and radio satellite tour; author tour) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
O'Reilly's first novel tells a story of revenge and murder set against the backdrop of television news. The opening chapters detail the corrupt, often despicable world of the networks, where pretty faces from New York conspire to appropriate the work of those on the front lines. When two of the smarmiest conspirators wind up dead, the list of suspects is as long as the number of people the networks have screwed along the way--hundreds. On the case is Detective Tommy O'Malley, along with aggressive journalist Ashley Van Buren. Against his better judgment, Tommy falls for Ashley and becomes the spunky young writer's informant. But Ashley's feelings are mixed, for she is also smitten with charming Shannon Michaels, who happens to be at the top of Tommy's list of suspects. Although stereotypical secondary characters are a drawback, the novel is nicely paced, and the network milieu works well as a setting for murder. Mary Frances Wilkens
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