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Hver kveld slår millioner av amerikanere seg ned foran TV-apparatene for å høre Crawford Sloane fortelle siste nytt fra verden og USA. Han er det store fjernsynsselskapet CBAs superstjerne, og når hans kone Jessica, sønnen Nicky og faren Angus blir kidnappet, skaker det hele nasjonen. Harry Partridge, stjernereporter og Sloanes konkurrent både når det gjelder seernes gunst og Jessicas kjærlighet, tar på seg det tøffe oppdraget å finne kollegaens familie og de hensynsløse kidnapperne.
Mye står på spill, og intens maktkamp truer med å gi narkotikakartellet som står bak frie hender. Arthur Haileys tiende thriller gir et skremmende bilde av en beinhard TV-verden, der det ikke skys noe middel for å være først med siste nytt. Vi følger den hektiske aktiviteten bak kulissene og spillet mellom eiere, produsenter og journalister i en stadig drakamp der annonsepenger og seerfrekvens bestemmer reglene og det ikke er noe budsjett for menneskelighet. Mot denne bakgrunnen utspilles et drama om fanatisk tro og milliardbeløp, og kjærlighet og lojalitet, om liv og død.
Mye står på spill, og intens maktkamp truer med å gi narkotikakartellet som står bak frie hender. Arthur Haileys tiende thriller gir et skremmende bilde av en beinhard TV-verden, der det ikke skys noe middel for å være først med siste nytt. Vi følger den hektiske aktiviteten bak kulissene og spillet mellom eiere, produsenter og journalister i en stadig drakamp der annonsepenger og seerfrekvens bestemmer reglene og det ikke er noe budsjett for menneskelighet. Mot denne bakgrunnen utspilles et drama om fanatisk tro og milliardbeløp, og kjærlighet og lojalitet, om liv og død.
245 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1990
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About the author
Arthur Hailey
94 books759 followersArthur Hailey was a British/Canadian novelist. After working at a number of jobs and writing part-time, he became a writer full-time during 1956, encouraged by the success of the CBC television drama, Flight into Danger (in print as
Runway Zero Eight
). Following the success of Hotel in 1965, he moved to California; followed by a permanent move to the Bahamas in 1969.
Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how these affect society and its inhabitants.
Critics often dismissed Hailey's success as the result of a formulaic "potboiler" style, in which he caused an ordinary character to become involved in a crisis, then increased the suspense by switching among multiple related plot lines.
Hailey would spend approximately one year researching a subject, followed by six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months writing the book.
Many of his books reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and more than 170 million copies have been sold worldwide in 40 languages. Many have been made into movies and Hotel was made into a long-running television series. Airport became a successful film with dramatic visual effects.
A Canadian citizen whose children live in Canada and California, Hailey made his home in Lyford Cay, an exclusive residential resort on New Providence Island in the Bahamas with his second wife Sheila.
In 2002, Hailey told John Marquis, editor of the Bahamas' principal daily newspaper The Tribune, that he was lucky in having supportive parents who encouraged him to believe in himself. Brought up in a working-class home, Hailey never lost the common touch following his phenomenal success. 'I have worked hard, but I have also been very lucky,' he said.
Each of his novels has a different industrial or commercial setting and includes, in addition to dramatic human conflict, carefully researched information about the way that particular environment and system functions and how these affect society and its inhabitants.
Critics often dismissed Hailey's success as the result of a formulaic "potboiler" style, in which he caused an ordinary character to become involved in a crisis, then increased the suspense by switching among multiple related plot lines.
Hailey would spend approximately one year researching a subject, followed by six months reviewing his notes and, finally, about 18 months writing the book.
Many of his books reached #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and more than 170 million copies have been sold worldwide in 40 languages. Many have been made into movies and Hotel was made into a long-running television series. Airport became a successful film with dramatic visual effects.
A Canadian citizen whose children live in Canada and California, Hailey made his home in Lyford Cay, an exclusive residential resort on New Providence Island in the Bahamas with his second wife Sheila.
In 2002, Hailey told John Marquis, editor of the Bahamas' principal daily newspaper The Tribune, that he was lucky in having supportive parents who encouraged him to believe in himself. Brought up in a working-class home, Hailey never lost the common touch following his phenomenal success. 'I have worked hard, but I have also been very lucky,' he said.
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