Review
"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
Product Description
Cassandra Brown is determined to make it as a top-notch newspaper reporter, but after two years in London she has failed to get even one story on to the Posts’s front page. But when a millionaire friend of the Prime Minister goes missing in mysterious circumstances, she seizes the chance to make the story hers, whatever the cost.
Day by day she writes revealing stories about the missing tycoon - his affairs, his finances, his health - and the secrets that even his wife did not know. There seem to be good reasons why he might have wanted to disappear. Or have been kidnapped. Or worse.
Then, two weeks after he walked out of his hotel, his battered body is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea. But did he fall, did he jump or was he pushed?
Driven by competition from other papers, Brown’s demanding News Editor insists she comes up with a new angle every day. The more she digs into his life, the more convinced she becomes of foul play. But she also discovers that even her most impeccable sources have their own agendas, their own axes to grind, and that it’s not only her own ambition that knows no limits.
Day by day she writes revealing stories about the missing tycoon - his affairs, his finances, his health - and the secrets that even his wife did not know. There seem to be good reasons why he might have wanted to disappear. Or have been kidnapped. Or worse.
Then, two weeks after he walked out of his hotel, his battered body is found floating in the Mediterranean Sea. But did he fall, did he jump or was he pushed?
Driven by competition from other papers, Brown’s demanding News Editor insists she comes up with a new angle every day. The more she digs into his life, the more convinced she becomes of foul play. But she also discovers that even her most impeccable sources have their own agendas, their own axes to grind, and that it’s not only her own ambition that knows no limits.
