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    Deadline Man: A Novel
    Deadline Man: A Novel
    Deadline Man: A Novel
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    Deadline Man: A Novel

    By Jon Talton

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    He's a man we know only as "the columnist." He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn't afraid to stir up trouble, and keeps his life—including his multiple lovers and his past—in safe compartments. But it's all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that "never makes news."

    The moment one of his sources takes a dive off a downtown skyscraper, the columnist is plunged into a harrowing maze of murder, intrigue, and secrets that powerful forces intend to keep hidden at all costs. All he has to go on is a corporate world where nothing is as it seems, increasingly menacing encounters with mysterious federal agents, and the unsettling meme "eleven/eleven."

    Meanwhile, the paper itself is dying. So the columnist joins with an aggressive young reporter to see if one explosive story can save a newspaper. Soon they're running to make the deadline of their lives....

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 31, 2012
    ISBN9781615952090
    Deadline Man: A Novel
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    Jon Talton

    Jon Talton is a fourth-generation Arizonan who grew up in the same neighbourhood that Mapstone calls home. He is the author of nine novels, including the Mapstone mysteries, The Pain Nurse and Deadline Man.

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    • 4/5
      This was the first of Talton's books I had ever read and I was alternatingly fascinated and kind of bored. His unnamed narrator, it turns out, lives 1/2 block from my house. Said narrator is a newspaper columnist. I started out as a newspaper reporter back in the day and developed a real prejudice against columnists and much of that prejudice was because they were all like this guy. Arrogant with clue about real life. It's hard to like a book when you really don't like the main character. And while I enjoyed the Seattle references, after a while it felt like I was being hit over the head with a Seattle map.

      But, yeah, I'll try another Talton in hopes these issues were a one off.
    • 5/5
      Read on my Kindle.A combination of economic downturn and the growth of the digital media has led to the decline in popularity of newspapers. During 2008 in the UK 53 regional newspapers closed. In the US some long standing family newspapers closed in 2008-2009, and a number filed for bankruptcy. "Real" journalists were also having their living undermined by bloggers, and free online news sources. Some newspapers try to survive by trimming staff down to essentials.This is the background against which DEADLINE MAN is set. The economic crisis brings with it not only the loss of savings for Mr and Mrs Average, but suicide amongst those financial whizzes whose hedge fund manipulations were responsible for the huge losses. But was that what Troy Hardesty did? After all, Seattle is known as the suicide capital of the world.As the economic columnist on Seattle's family owned newspaper the Free Press, known to us only as "the columnist", walks away from the building in which he has just interviewed Hardesty, the financier's body plummets twenty floors down into the bonnet of the new black Toyota Camry sitting behind a bus in the curb lane.Hardesty's hedge fund has just invested $75 million into a Silicon Valley startup. In the interview he had seemed confident in his own ability to survive, a long way from potential suicide. He tells "the columnist" that newspaper journalism is over. When asked what he knows about Olympic International he counters with a question about what "the columnist" knows about eleven-eleven. Half an hour later "the columnist" has a good start for his Sunday column, and minutes after that Troy Hardesty is dead.From the moment Troy Hardesty dies "the columnist" is a marked man. No-one who knows him is safe, and very nasty people attempt to ensure that the column he is writing never makes it to the presses, and indeed that the newspaper itself dies.It is obvious that Jon Talton knows what he is talking about in the world of journalists, and the background of the recent financial crisis adds a level of authenticity. Blended into the story is a strand about a missing teenage girl, and there are very real dangers to "the columnist's" many girl friends. I came away feeling I knew a lot more jargon from the publishing industry, although there were times when I found it just a bit overwhelming. This is a tightly written thriller worth thinking about reading.

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