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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. From Publishers Weekly In his first book in six years, Hailey ( Airport ; Hotel ; etc.) links the infamous Medellin drug cartel with the violent revolutionaries of Sendero Luminoso --"the Shining Path"--a Maoist terrorist group that in this scorcher kidnaps the family of CBA-TV news anchor Crawford Sloane. After a slow, creaky start, and despite a pasteboard cast of guerillas who shoot off more stilted phrases than bullets, the story moves with speed and heat as Crawford's valiant wife Jessica, her young son Nicky and flinty father-in-law are smuggled in coffins to Peru, then marched to a steaming, remote jungle village. Back in the States, heavy-weight correspondent Harry Partridge, Jessica's old lover, spearheads an investigation that the network's slimy parent company, Globanic Industries, tries to hamper. Gripping behind-the-scenes action at CBA-TV and a vivid primer on terrorist tactics pepper the boiling pot. Credibility gaps in the final chapters are paved over by sheer, reckless drama. Literary Guild main selection; Reader's Digest Condensed Book Club selection. Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. From School Library Journal "We interrupt our regular programming to bring you a special report. . . police . . . have reported the apparent kidnapping of the wife, young son, and father of CBA news anchorman Crawford Sloane" summarizes the plot of this exciting novel. Readers will feel a part of the team of CBA staffers who become detectives in the exciting race to rescue the family from ruthless Colombian terrorists rather than give into their demands for free air time. Readers also witness life with the captives--both the brutal and the kinder moments. In typical, well-researched Hailey fashion, the behind-the-scenes world in the news department of the network is realistically brought to life. Italicized flashbacks present background that develops the characters more fully. The length of the novel may prevent many students from picking it up, but those who do will find an action-filled adventure that's hard to put down. The novel may also appeal to students interested in electronic journalism as a career; in addition to depicting newsroom life, the book will open their eyes to both the close camaraderie and the bitter conflicts that can exist in a large organization. --Claudia Moore, W. T. Woodson High School, Fairfax, VA Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. Unos terroristas peruanos han secuestrado a la familia de Crawford Sloane, presentador estrella de la cadena. Pretenden que la emisora emita un comunicado de su líder revolucionario dirigido a los Estados Unidos. La emisora, desconfiando de los cauces oficiales de investigación y negociación, se compromete a poner a sus periodistas a investigar el secuestro, especialmente a Harry Partridge, veterano corresponsal en Vietnam y en múltiples escenarios de guerra. At CBA Television 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. 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