The Evening News
Author: Hailey, Arthur
ISBN: 9780552165532
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 31 Jul 2011
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
The world of a TV newscaster bcomes caught up in violence when his family are kidnapped.
When Crawford Sloane's wife, son and elderly father are mysteriously kidnapped, his life turns upside down.As CBA-TV's most celebrated and popular newscaster, he has become a prime target for terrorists.While the TV network is held to ransom, Sloane decides to launch his own rescue mission, and asks Harry Partridge, his colleague and competitor since the days they covered the war in Vietnam together, to head the operation.This is the most perilous assignment either has ever undertaken, and in an uneasy partnership, it will require all their professional and emotional strength.For Jessica, Crawford's wife, is the only woman Harry has ever loved...
The Evening News sweeps from the battle between profit and ethics in the boardrooms and newsrooms of New York, to the clash of idealism and brutality in the jungles of South America, from an FBI investigation of a tragic crime, to a Florida-bound jet carrying a most unusual human cargo.
ISBN: 9780552165532
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK
Year first published: 31 Jul 2011
Pages: 656
Format: Paperback / softback
The world of a TV newscaster bcomes caught up in violence when his family are kidnapped.
When Crawford Sloane's wife, son and elderly father are mysteriously kidnapped, his life turns upside down.As CBA-TV's most celebrated and popular newscaster, he has become a prime target for terrorists.While the TV network is held to ransom, Sloane decides to launch his own rescue mission, and asks Harry Partridge, his colleague and competitor since the days they covered the war in Vietnam together, to head the operation.This is the most perilous assignment either has ever undertaken, and in an uneasy partnership, it will require all their professional and emotional strength.For Jessica, Crawford's wife, is the only woman Harry has ever loved...
The Evening News sweeps from the battle between profit and ethics in the boardrooms and newsrooms of New York, to the clash of idealism and brutality in the jungles of South America, from an FBI investigation of a tragic crime, to a Florida-bound jet carrying a most unusual human cargo.
