Operation Mockingbird

by Linda Baletsa

OPERATION MOCKINGBIRD MIRRORS TODAY'S HEADLINES WITH ITS STUNNING REVELATIONS ABOUT THE DARK RECESSES OF MEDIA MANIPULATION. Miami journalist Matt Connelly returns home from the Middle East eager to resume his once successful writing career. He soon learns that a powerful public relations firm is manufacturing the news and feeding this propaganda to an unsuspecting public. Reporters who don't go along are being intimidated, tortured -- or worse. This firm will stop at nothing to maintain the spin, including murder. Matt Connelly vows to expose the truth as well as the unholy alliance among business, the government and the media but soon finds himself on the run from those determined to silence him.

Genres: History

314 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 30, 2013

Reviews

[Skye Wentworth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Linda Baletsa's novel is a thriller about America's war propaganda and media manipulation. It's scary stuff when a Miami reporter returns from Afghanistan and learns that a powerful PR firm is manufacturing news and feeding this propaganda to the public. Scarier still when he learns that reporters who don't go along are being intimidated, tortured -- or worse.

This is a beautifully written and fully engaging novel, one which I highly recommend!

[Robert Felton · Rating 2 out of 5]

A terrific set-up and intriguing protagonist (yah! journalism!) give way to one of the most stupefyingly nonsensical conclusions I've read in some time. It's like someone went to the big box cliche store and ordered one of everything. Really disappointing.

[Carlos Ortiz · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great easy reading thriller

I enjoyed the reality based story lines and the twists of the story kept me guessing. Sadly too many of us have our heads down and miss what is going on around us. When did the news stop reporting and start giving opinions as facts?

[Sarah Visbeek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not just because I work with the author in real life, I was on the edge of my seat throughout most of this novel and could honestly see it adapted for the big screen. A fast-paced thriller about cover ups and lies within the government and big private companies profiting off unrest abroad.

[Celeste Halko · Rating 5 out of 5]

It shows clearly that false statements, if repeated often enough, will become "fact ".