The Journalist

For readers who devour Laura Lippmans Tess Monaghan series and Jan Burkes Irene Kelly series comes a new standalone novel of crime and journalism from Dan Newman, who keeps the lines of suspense tense and razor-sharp. (Laura Benedict, author of Isabella Moon and Devils Oven.) In the middle of the night, in war-torn Rwanda, journalist Roland Keene leaves his hotel to find armed rebels to interview. Some would call it a suicide mission. Roland would agree. Keene has started at the bottom, living paycheck to paycheck, running from the bookie to whom he owes this and next months rent, and trying to make his mark at one of his shining citys great papers. With no big breaks coming his way, though, Keene decides to make his own. He orchestrates a robberyone designed to cast himself as the herobut it goes all wrong and turns into a high-profile murder. Despite everything, Keenes role as a white knight gets him favor with the victims father, and a foot in the door of the newsroom. Immersed in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism, he breaks another storythis one of citywide corruptionbut also starts accumulating powerful enemies among his colleagues. Though Keenes work as a foreign correspondent keeps him on the roadand at arms length from his problemsit doesnt stop him from being hounded by the people he betrayed on his way to the front page. What will happen to the great Roland Keene if his crimes are revealed, and to what lengths will he go to ensure his secrets never see the light of day?