- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Matador (1 Nov 2007)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1906221308
- ISBN-13: 978-1906221300
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,430,343 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"David Brewerton's first novel keeps you wanting to know more... Along the way he conjures up an all too authentic picture of the competitiveness and casual cruelty, not to mention the sheer grungy tackiness, of newspaper newsrooms. His characters - the louche news editor, the eternally absent big-name columnist... remain familiar however much the technology changes." - Amazon.co.uk"The plot is a page-turner in itself, yet it is Brewerton's newsroom characters who steal the show." - Amazon.co.uk"A revealing and honest insight into the world of the printed media ... an investigative thriller with a strong, credible plot, told at a good pace and with a lot of fascinating detail." - www.materialwitness.typepad.com
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Even after two years in London Cassandra Brown failed to get even one story on to the Posts' front page. But when a millionaire friend of the Prime Minister goes missing, she seizes the chance. Day by day she writes revealing stories about the missing tycoon. Two weeks later, his body is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea.
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A colourful cast,
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This review is from: Impeccable Sources (Paperback)
David Brewerton was one of the great City columnists of his day; he had a ringside seat on the breaking scandals of the early 1990s. In Impeccable Sources, Brewerton recreates that era as ace reporter Cassandra Brown sets off on a Maxwell-style quest to investigate the mystery death of a senior British business figure. The plot is a page-turner in itself, yet it is Brewerton's newsroom characters who steal the show, from the manic news editor to the eternally lunching columnist. Fleet Street junkies will love it.
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Intriguing illumination of the world of journalism as a novel!,
By DJB (Yorkshire UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Impeccable Sources (Paperback)
Firstly, I must point out that I share the same name, David Brewerton, as the author and so the book does create a talking point with visitors to my house!David, the author, is a highly accomplished journalist and it was a surprise to find he had written a novel. The story is around an investigative journalist peeling through layers of intrigue and at the end of every chapter or so you get the journalists copy as submitted to the editor for publication. I found this approach really illuminating because it caused me to reflect on what you read in the papers, and hear/see on radio and TV, with a more critical eye than perhaps I did before. The story is a real page turner with multiple potential plots and endings that you are working on in your mind throughout the book. The actual ending is absolutely what you would never have guessed and that too I found thought provoking about the news in general. All in all an excellent read and highly informative!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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riveting Feet St whodunit,
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This review is from: Impeccable Sources (Paperback)
David Brewerton's first novel keeps you wanting to know more as he tracks the quest of a young Fleet St reporter to invetigate a mysterious disappearance in the face of official disinterest, spin-doctor misinformation and decidely malevolent suggestion from his old business colleagues. Along the way he conjures up an all too authentic picture of the competitiveness and casual cruelty , not to mention the sheer grungy tackiness, of newspaper newsrooms.His characters -the louche news editor, the eternally absent big-name columnist,and the bumbling but insightful old reporter destined always to be passed over remain familiar however much the technology changes. Each chapter leaves you wanting to know more until the final sobering denouement. If there is a criticism, in this age of instant electronics, would his heroine be left to get on with the story so much on her own?
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