The Evening News: a Novel

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.