The Nominee

The Nominee

Investigative reporter Jack Flynn is once again dodging assassins' bullets on the trail of a story that's even more politically explosive than he knows. Boston Globe columnist McGrory's second political thriller (after The Incumbent) crackles with newsroom energy as Flynn investigates corruption that's seemingly close to home: his beloved employer, the Boston Record, is about to be taken over and dumbed down by schlock-media mogul Terry Campbell. On a paranoid hunch from his boss, Flynn is sent to see whether Campbell had anything to do with the death, supposedly of natural causes, of the Record's publisher five years ago. The intrigue widens to include Lance Randolph, the compulsively poll-taking Massachusetts governor just nominated for attorney general, and Flynn discovers a much cozier relationship between politicians and some of his venerable Record colleagues than he had previously suspected. Flynn is a charmingly self-effacing narrator who never misses an opportunity to ta...
ISBN: 743483626
Year of publication: 2002
Number of pages: 431
Reading time: 7 h. 11 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
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