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A fast and furious look at the brash, bitchy truth behind the headlines from an author who's been there...Anna Armitage is determined to reach the top as a news photo-journalist. She's got the talent. She's got the drive. All she needs is the luck...Sam Turner, former Daily-News high-flyer, is on the slide. Too expensive to fire, the new management are hoping late call-outs to cover lousy stories will force him to resign .So the Bella Fraser fiasco is the last thing either of them needs. The novice and the old hack screw up big time- and the supermodel splash goes to the Chronicle instead. But a great partnership has been born. Together, Anna and Sam just survive megalomaniac proprietors, ruthless news editors, a hawkish peer intent on introducing a privacy law- and Bella Fraser. Oh, and they might topple a Home Secretary or so along the way...
- GenresFiction
352 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1998
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August 10, 2013
This was a quick and easy read. Not great literature but the setting reminded me of my old days working for a national newspaper - fairly true to life depicting old school journalism - before spellcheck and digital film. Pub scenes with journos passed out in corners and sad sub-editors dying on the job at their desks made me cringe and cry a little. Did I really live like this. Hell yeah. I miss it. The only minus - the ending was too perfect, the snapper gets a great job and a boyfriend, and the journo rekindles his marriage. Why does there always have to be a happy ending - too Barbara Cartland for me..
note to self; 1 0f 23 books all for $10
note to self; 1 0f 23 books all for $10
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