| A brilliant reporter probes into thc darkpast of a candidate for the U.S. Senateand comes up with the story of a life-time--only to find that it threatens thevery survival of his newspaper. Every step that Jimmy Darcy takesinto the labyrinth of corruption sur-rounding Congressman Michael Santiniseems to raise new personal and ethicaldilemmas. Santini s ex-mistress be-comes Darey s source and then his lover.When hc refuses to give her name incourt, his own publisher and editors,afraid that a libel judgment will meanthe end of the financially troubled paper,reassign him to an inconsequentialnight shift. In disgrace, and obsessed with ven-geance, Darcy follows up another leadon Santini that yields an even more ex-plosive expose. But Darcy has nowhereto print the story and few allies on thepaper. In desperation hc turns to thenewspaper s sophisticated new computersystem... From the publisher s penthouse to theclamor of the pressroom, this novel laysbare the passions and fascination of jour-nalism. It shows decisions being madeand compromised by power struggles,weakness, and ambition at a big-citynewspaper. |
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