Press Corpse: A Knight & Day Mystery (Knight & Day Mysteries) - Hardcover

Nessen, Ron; Neuman, Johanna

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9780312855925: Press Corpse: A Knight & Day Mystery (Knight & Day Mysteries)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312855923 ISBN 13: 9780312855925

Publisher: Forge, 1996

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Press Corpse brings back the dynamic twosome of Jerry Knight, the "Night Talker" - the brash and opinionated right-wing host of America's most popular all-night radio talk show - and Jane Day, a thoroughly liberated and just as opinionated leftist reporter for The Washington Post.
Their philosophies are light-years from one another. From food to religion, politics to who's going to win the Superbowl, these two can't seem to agree on anything.
Anything but murder, that is.
When a well-known journalist is killed at an event where the president is speaking, Knight and Day can't help getting involved. It soon becomes apparent that the bad guys may have hit the wrong target.
And the president might be next....

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From Kirkus Reviews:

Who slipped something into veteran CNN reporter Dan McLean's soup that made one of his most memorable dinners--the star- studded annual banquet of the White House Correspondents Association--his last? Before you answer, you may want to know that (1) right-wing radio ranter Jerry Knight thinks the murder is part of a botched liberal plot to assassinate another guest, inoffensive conservative President Dale Hammond; (2) Jerry's opposite number, Kennedy-loving Washington Post reporter Jane Day, is convinced McLean was killed to prevent him from going public with a scandalous story dating back to the US evacuation from Vietnam; (3) an amateur videotape captured an image of the Vietnamese poisoner, whose corpse D.C. cop A.L. Jones will soon be called upon to identify; (4) the First Lady, a hard-charging hacker who investigates on her own, comes to suspect the President himself; and (5) none of this matters: A portentous finale at the Vietnam Memorial will reveal that everybody's wrong--all the mystery-mongering is smoke and red herrings, and the killer is nobody you care about. Not that that clue helps to distinguish the perp from the rest of the famous, forgettable cast. Buckets of empty vivacity as Jerry and Jane (Knight and Day, 1995), probably uneasy at being becalmed in such underplotted folderol, volley toothless partisan insults. An early front- runner for the title of the year's most disposable mystery. -- Copyright �1996, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

The Washington-based husband-and-wife team of Nessen and Neuman bring Jerry Knight and Jane Day back (after Knight and Day) into the often malicious world of politics and scandal. A prime example of the attraction of opposites, Knight is a king of conservative talk radio while Day is a liberal reporter who works the White House beat for the Washington Post. Both are present at a White House press dinner when well-known CNN reporter Dan McLean keels over dead at the head table, not far from President Dale Hammond, a staunch conservative. Exploring, Day unearths information which exposes McLean's infidelities, as well as his probing of a secret memo from the end of the Vietnam War. For Knight, Day and rumpled D.C. homicide detective, A.L. Jones, the question is who was the intended victim and how is the Vietnamese community involved? Knight and Day are cheerfully outspoken adversaries who outwardly spar while trying to untangle their ambiguous relationship, and Jones is great as the melancholy cop, with his love of architecture and his dejection at failing efforts to curtail street crime. Fast-paced and crisply styled, the icing on the cake is the clever conclusion at the Vietnam Wall.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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