The False and the Unfair: A Novel

by Roger Armbrust

Mitchell Morgan is national news editor of Center Stage, the business news bible for America’s professional performers. And his pressures are mounting in Manhattan.The Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Radio and Television Artists’ 300,000 members are in the middle of a contentious commercials contract strike with the nation’s producers.A conservative U.S. Congress is threatening to scrap funding for PBS and the nation’s cultural actors’ other major money providers.His girlfriend/roommate of two years has walked out. Yet another woman suddenly enters his life.As if this isn’t enough, he stumbles onto a retired CIA assassin/whistleblower who has enticed Mitch to help him find a publisher for his scandal-revealing memoir. Reading his manuscript, Mitch shockingly discovers he’s seeking “I finally realized I had spent my life killing the wrong people…as one last action, I’ll kill the right people.”And now the CIA is knocking on Mitch’s door.How does an ethical journalist, and long-time recovering alcoholic, respond to all this?
How would you?
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238 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 1, 2025