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Voor Sheila en Diane, met bijzondere erkentelijkheid, en voor mijn talrijke vrienden in de wereld van de media, die mij vertrouwelijke informatie verschaften.  To
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In der Zentrale von CBA Television News in New York traf die Nachricht über den havarierten Airbus A 300, der brennend den Flughafen von Dallas-Fort Worth anflog, erst wenige Minuten vor der Erstausgabe der National Evening News ein, der landesweit ausgestrahlten Abendnachrichten. At CBA Televison News headquarters in New York, the initial report of a stricken Airbus A300, on fire and approaching Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, came only minutes before the network's first feed of the National Evening News. | |
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When Crawford Sloane's wife, son and elderly father are mysteriously kidnapped, his life turns upside down. As CBA-TV's most celebrated and popular newscaster, he has become a prime target for terrorists. While the TV network is held to ransom, Sloane decides to launch his own rescue mission, and asks Harry Partridge, his colleague and competitor since the days they covered the war in Vietnam together, to head the operation. This is the most perilous assignment either has ever undertaken, and in an uneasy partnership, it will require all their professional and emotional strength. For Jessica, Crawford's wife, is the only woman Harry has ever loved...
The Evening News sweeps from the battle between profit and ethics in the boardrooms and newsrooms of New York, to the clash of idealism and brutality in the jungles of South America, from an FBI investigation of a tragic crime, to a Florida-bound jet carrying a most unusual human cargo.
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Crawford Sloane, de glamourvolle presentator van CBA-News, wordt uit zijn rol van afstandelijke verslaggever en commentator gedrongen wanneer zijn vrouw Jessica, zijn zoontje en zijn vader worden gekidnapt door een door de drugshandel gefinancierde terroristische organisatie. Sloane roept de hulp in van zijn eeuwige rivaal bij CBA, sterverslaggever Harry Partridge, ex-geliefde van Jesscia. Beide mannen worden actieve medespelers in een drama dat door de televisiekijkers met ingehouden adem wordt gevolgd. CBA stelt een speciaal team van doorgewinterde journalisten samen om jacht te maken op de ontvoerders. Hun vasthoudend speurwerk voert hen naar de Zuidamerikaanse jungle en brengt de ontknoping van het drama dichterbij. Intussen woedt achter de schermen van CBA, onzichtbaar voor de kijkers, een oorlog. De omroep is overgenomen door een arrogante multinational, Globanic Industries. De meedogenloze president van Globanic, Margot Lloyd-Mason, heeft maar één doel voor ogen: het verbeteren van de financiële resultaten. Budgetbewaking is prioriteit nummer een. Het lot van CBA en van de gijzelaars hangt aan een zijden draad. | |
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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, ace reporter Harry Partridge; on a beautiful and ruthless network CEO, and on Sloane's determination to track the kidnappers down--from New York to Columbia to the Peruvian Andes and a final heart-stopping climax of danger and death. From the Paperback edition.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:07:56 -0500) (see all 4 descriptions) ▾Library descriptions Long-time rivals, news figures Sloane and Partridge, once in love with the same woman, become involved in the crisis of drug-financed terrorism imported to America from Peru. » see all 2 descriptions |
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