The Evening News A Novel

by HAILEY, ARTHUR

• ISBN13: 9780385504249
• ISBN10: 0385504241
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-07-10
• Publisher: Doubleday

Summary

Cold-blooded politics, naked power, and raw  terror behind the scenes. Murder in New York, terror  in South America, bloody riots in Eastern Europe.  That's the evening news as calmly reported by top  TV anchorman Crawford Sloane. . .until his own  life is torn apart in one dramatic moment. For when  terrorists snatch his family, no one knows better  than Sloane how slim are the chances of getting  them back alive. Now their fate depends on Sloane's  rival, ace reporter Harry Partridge; on a  beautiful and ruthless network CEO, and on Sloane's  determination to track the kidnappers down--from New  York to Columbia to the Peruvian Andes and a final  heart-stopping climax of danger and  death.

Author Biography

Arthur Hailey (1920-2004), the author of eleven novels, many of which became #1 New York Times bestsellers, was born in Luton, England. He served as a pilot and flight lieutenant in the British Royal Air Force during World War II and immigrated to Canada in 1947. While working for a transportation trade magazine, he scored his first writing success with a television drama, and began to write screenplays full-time for various networks during the golden age of live television. His novel-writing career took off in 1959 with the publication of his first novel, The Final Diagnosis, and picked up velocity with Hotel and then Airport, which spent thirty weeks in the #1 spot on the New York Times bestseller list and became a blockbuster film.