Details: Jack Mc Evoy is at the end of the line as a crime reporter. Forced to take a buy-out from the LA Times, he's got 30 days left on the job. His last assignment? Training his replacement, a low-cost reporter just out of J-school. But Jack has other plans for his exit. He is going to go out with a bang
- a final story that will win the newspaper journalism's highest honour
- a Pulitzer prize. Jack focuses on Alonzo Winslow, a 16-year-old drug dealer from the projects who has confessed to police that he brutally raped & strangled one of his crack clients. But as Jack delves into the story he soon realises that Alonzo's so-called confession is bogus. The investigation leads him to a killer known as The Scarecrow who has worked completely below the police & FBI radar. Jack is soon off & running on the biggest story he's had since The Poet crossed his path twelve years before
- but The Scarecrow knows he's coming... Ideal for: Fans of crime & thriller fiction books & fans of books by Michael Connelly. This paperback book has 421 pages & measures: 17.7 x 11 x 2.6cm