Deadline Man
by Jon Talton
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Pub Date May 01 2010 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
He's a man whose life is so intertwined with his job that we know him only as "the columnist." He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble and keeps his life-including his multiple lovers and his past- in safe compartments. But it's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that "never makes news."
The moment one of his sources takes a dive off a downtown skyscraper, the columnist is plunged into a harrowing maze of murder, intrigue and secrets that powerful forces intend to keep hidden at all costs. All he has to go on is a corporate world where nothing is as it seems, increasingly menacing encounters with mysterious federal agents, and the unsettling meme "eleven/eleven."
Meanwhile, the paper itself is dying. So the columnist joins with an aggressive young reporter to see if one explosive story can save a newspaper-and much more. They're running to make the deadline of their lives....
The moment one of his sources takes a dive off a downtown skyscraper, the columnist is plunged into a harrowing maze of murder, intrigue and secrets that powerful forces intend to keep hidden at all costs. All he has to go on is a corporate world where nothing is as it seems, increasingly menacing encounters with mysterious federal agents, and the unsettling meme "eleven/eleven."
Meanwhile, the paper itself is dying. So the columnist joins with an aggressive young reporter to see if one explosive story can save a newspaper-and much more. They're running to make the deadline of their lives....
Advance Praise
From Booklist
*Starred Review* A cabal of defense contractors with a diabolical plan
to gain control of the govenment runs up against the power of the press
in this nonstop thriller. When the respected business columnist of the
Seattle Free Press-a man known for his ability to write under pressure
and meet deadlines as he cranks out three columns a week-stumbles on a
story about the local company Olympic International, people around him
begin to die in murders framed to look like suicides or lovers' quarrels
(but could be something much more ominous). People are not what they
seem here, from the new female police reporter who works with the
columnist (and who remains nameless throughout the journalist's
first-person account), to the federal agents inquiring about a missing
teenage girl, to the higher-ups at the newspaper, which is facing tough
financial times. And throughout the four weeks during which the story
takes place, the term "eleven/eleven" echoes ominously. Talton, author
of The Pain Nurse (2009) and the David Mapstone series, combines a
moving paean to the free press with a chillingly plausible thriller plot
built around black ops. A knockout novel that leaves the reader with
renewed appreciation for independent daily newspapers. --Michele Leber
From Publishers Weekly Talton (The Pain Nurse) brings his journalism expertise to this fine mystery narrated by an unnamed columnist for a Seattle newspaper. Shortly after the columnist has a routine meeting with sometime source and heavy-hitting hedge fund manager Troy Hardesty at the man's downtown office, Troy falls 20 stories to his death on the street below. Back at the columnist's office, the paper's managers announce the company will be sold or closed in 60 days. Despite the uproar, the columnist is more concerned with juggling his three lovers than his future-until he's accosted by a streetwalker who shouts,Eleven-eleven! Later, sinister men claiming to be federal officers ask the columnist what Troy told him at their meeting. The columnist joins forces with Amber Burke, a cub reporter who wants to prove herself with a big story, in an effort to find out what's really going on. Well-rounded characters and a lightning-paced plot raise this well above the average global conspiracy story. (May)
From Publishers Weekly Talton (The Pain Nurse) brings his journalism expertise to this fine mystery narrated by an unnamed columnist for a Seattle newspaper. Shortly after the columnist has a routine meeting with sometime source and heavy-hitting hedge fund manager Troy Hardesty at the man's downtown office, Troy falls 20 stories to his death on the street below. Back at the columnist's office, the paper's managers announce the company will be sold or closed in 60 days. Despite the uproar, the columnist is more concerned with juggling his three lovers than his future-until he's accosted by a streetwalker who shouts,Eleven-eleven! Later, sinister men claiming to be federal officers ask the columnist what Troy told him at their meeting. The columnist joins forces with Amber Burke, a cub reporter who wants to prove herself with a big story, in an effort to find out what's really going on. Well-rounded characters and a lightning-paced plot raise this well above the average global conspiracy story. (May)
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781590587140 |
| PRICE | 24.95 |
| PAGES | 288 |
