The Evening News

by Arthur Hailey

Book Overview

Cold-blooded politics, naked power, and raw terror behind the scenes. Murder in New York, terror in South America, bloody riots in Eastern Europe. That's the evening news as calmly reported by top TV anchorman Crawford Sloane. . .until his own life is torn apart in one dramatic moment. For when terrorists snatch his family, no one knows better than Sloane how slim are the chances of getting them back alive. Now their fate depends on Sloane's rival,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385237081
• ISBN13: 9780385237086
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Trepidante

El secuestro de la familia de un famoso presentador de la televisón norteamericana en Nueva York y su posterior traslado a la selva peruana por los esbirros de Sendero Luminoso desencadena una actividad frenética en la cadena de televisión CBA de rastreo, investigación, búsqueda y difusión de cada una de las pistas que van a descubriendo los periodistas, presentadores, realizadores y técnicos de dicha cadena y presentando sus descubrimientos en primicia en sus noticieros. A través de la trama, nos sumergimos en el mundillo del periodismo de investigación, las técnicas de edición y presentación de los noticieros así como los entramados e intereses de las transnacionales que controlan los medios de difusión masivas en el mundo globalizado y el filón económico que pueden sacar con las noticias sobre secuestros y terrorismo a escala mundial.

Evening News, The: A Novel by Arthur Hailey

The book is perfect condition Thank you very much Valeriy Schukin

A page-turner, very exciting, though the plot is a stretch

We are asked to believe that one of the talking heads on the tv news is an adventure hero, taking on international terrorists. Can you just picture Dan Rather or Peter Jennings with a machine gun? Okay. Once you get past that, the rest of the book is believable. Well.......... not exactly. We are also asked to believe that the tv news is more capable of solving a terrorist crime than the FBI or CIA is. I hope that's not true. The networks and the FBI are painted as being antagonistic towards each other, not working together.Now for the positives. This book gets you involved. The final dozens of pages are like the homestretch of a good horserace. You won't want to put it down. Despite my complaints, I have given this book the top rating. Entertainment value counts for a lot.The one thing I disliked most about Hailey's writing was that he resorted to a cheap trick to entangle us in a sub-plot. The sad love story of Harry and Gemma was told to us in Perils of Pauline fashion, a chunk at a time, with lots of pages in between the various parts. Harry reminisced to a point, left us hanging, then picked up the sad story many pages later. It was offensively manipulative of the author. By the end, I wanted to kill Gemma off to be rid of the hokey technique.

I couldn't put it down!

This book kept me up till 7am and I completed the first 2/3 of it in one go (Then I had to get some sleep..). It describes the TV news networks very well, down to the detail of how the technical side works, and at the same time the story keeps you spellbound till the last word. It is the first book I have read by Arthur Hailey, but it sure won't be the last!

just great

This author really gets you into the action, I love the way he writes and the very extense vocabulary he uses. I read it in Spanish but I'd enjoy reading it in English