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S6: An RB McGehee Scoop
From the jaw-dropping opening sequence through the haunting final scene, S6 – in an all new author-approved edition – tracks RB McGehee's journey into the molten core of the climate crisis, a swirl of facts and fear and faith that obscures motivation, twists politics and muddles responsibility. And the reporter's only guide is a journalistic profession, what he likes to call a craft, that seems to be collapsing all around him...
American expat RB McGehee is struggling with the relative nature of truth, the self-imposed dogma of old-school journalism and a too-fresh tragedy when the Red Cross comes knocking with a request to help find a missing oil worker.
The second-tier reporter with the two-man Global Press bureau in Edinburgh agrees to file a couple of paragraphs for the US wire agency and expects to hear nothing further.
There are in any case bigger fish to fry. Scotland has unveiled unilateral carbon reduction measures and a diplomatic hoo-ha with Norway threatens to escalate into what the locals would call a proper stooshie. Even worse, the pencil pushers in Frankfurt HQ are cracking down on expenses.
The story, however, refuses to go away. And McGehee – risking life, love and career – must juggle the unwritten rules of reporting the news, his own impossibly high standards, and the forces desperate to bury any trace of the enigmatic S6.
"With S6, T S Westbrook delivers an enthralling slice of noir. It's a slow-burning missing-person mystery but the novel canters along nicely with neat domestic storytelling, a topical political angle and great insight into investigative journalism" – Stuart Johnstone
"An immersive and intensely satisfying investigation. RB McGehee is an old school journalist whose nose for a good story makes him fantastic company. A gripping and hard-hitting expose" – Ewan Gault
American expat RB McGehee is struggling with the relative nature of truth, the self-imposed dogma of old-school journalism and a too-fresh tragedy when the Red Cross comes knocking with a request to help find a missing oil worker.
The second-tier reporter with the two-man Global Press bureau in Edinburgh agrees to file a couple of paragraphs for the US wire agency and expects to hear nothing further.
There are in any case bigger fish to fry. Scotland has unveiled unilateral carbon reduction measures and a diplomatic hoo-ha with Norway threatens to escalate into what the locals would call a proper stooshie. Even worse, the pencil pushers in Frankfurt HQ are cracking down on expenses.
The story, however, refuses to go away. And McGehee – risking life, love and career – must juggle the unwritten rules of reporting the news, his own impossibly high standards, and the forces desperate to bury any trace of the enigmatic S6.
"With S6, T S Westbrook delivers an enthralling slice of noir. It's a slow-burning missing-person mystery but the novel canters along nicely with neat domestic storytelling, a topical political angle and great insight into investigative journalism" – Stuart Johnstone
"An immersive and intensely satisfying investigation. RB McGehee is an old school journalist whose nose for a good story makes him fantastic company. A gripping and hard-hitting expose" – Ewan Gault
270 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 25, 2024
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