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Off With His Talking Head
Off With His Talking Head
Off With His Talking Head
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Tom Hutchinson is a conservative pundit who is as well known around Washington for his drinking and his lecherous ways as he is for his Sunday talk show, The Quartet. When he dies at a black-tie fundraiser, everyone assumes it's a heart attack. But environmental activist Laura Delaney suspects murder.

Laura and political reporter David Wainwright team up to discover how and why Tom was killed. They solve the mystery with the help of dogged Internet digging as well as shoe leather. They also uncover a political bribery scandal, delve into the world of political talk shows, and find a way out of the political correctness mess for the Washington Redskins. Involving potatoes.

The book is filled with up-to-the-minute examples of news and social media, including tweets, YouTube videos, cable news broadcasts, text messages, and political blog posts from the left and right. With its combination of mystery, humor, romance, and political satire, Off With His Talking Head will appeal to anyone who likes to poke fun at the foibles of lawmakers and the media in our nation's capital. A bonus feature: recipes from meals prepared by the story's characters.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherS.W. Spooner
Release dateAug 8, 2017
ISBN9781370655038
Off With His Talking Head
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S.W. Spooner

Sher Watts Spooner lives in Oak Park, IL, and has spent her career as a newspaper reporter and editor on one national weekly and three daily newspapers. She is now a freelance editor and writer as well as a contributing editor at Daily Kos, a leading national political website. An admitted political and media junkie, she also runs a website, politicalmurder.com, in which she blogs about politics and media and offers a daily changing "political murder of the day," ranging from assassinated politicians to historical massacres to murdered civil rights leaders. Check it out, or look for highlights on Facebook and Twitter. Follow us on Twitter: @SherSpooner. And find out how to buy more upcoming books in the Political Murder series.

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