Three in a bed : the shady world of tabloid media, espionage and political scandal

Sam Plummer is the undisputed tabloid king. But someone is trying to dethrone him. As news editor of one of the biggest red top Sunday papers, Sam Plummer is no stranger to sex and scandal. When he breaks a sensationally juicy, full-blown political scoop—a Tory peer exposed in a Black Sea love nest with a pair of stunning Ukrainian women a third his age—everything goes spectacularly wrong. Caught at his own game, Sam is cast adrift—but he refuses to go quietly, convinced there is a larger conspiracy at play. Pursued by the paparazzi, police and MI6, and finding he is now the one in the spotlight, Sam must dig deep into a shady world of sex, spies and entrapment to uncover the plot to destroy him. To discover the truth, he must rely on his resourceful ex-military bodyguard, his long retired mentor, and the disarmingly beautiful lawyer he was just starting to get to know... but can he be sure that anyone is as they seem? In this high-adrenaline thriller, Andrew Croker reminds us you can't always believe what you see in the news... or in real life. This is a sensationally juicy novel about tabloid journalism, political scandal, spies, entrapments and sex. Quite a lot of sex, in fact. The story begins just a few days after the hacking trial of the summer of 2014 that exposed the unethical practices of national tabloid journalism. Sam Plummer is the undisputed king of the front page expose, but he is growing increasingly bored with tabloid drivel. When he gets the chance to break a rare 'real' scoop, he makes a mistake that unravels his world, graphically exposes his own colourful private life, and forces him into the centre of a media storm. Convinced it's a conspiracy, Sam undertakes a thrilling investigation in pursuit of the truth that will restore his thrashed reputation ... only to stumble upon a far more explosive story that could trigger a national security crisis. This really is a story about three in a bed - a full-blown, political sex scandal. But it also exposes the unsavoury threesome that Gordon Brown called the 'criminal-media nexus': politicians, police, and the press A sensationally juicy novel about tabloid journalism, political scandal, spies, entrapments, and sex. Quite a lot of sex, in fact. The story begins just a few days after the hacking trial of the summer of 2014 that exposed the unethical practices of national tabloid journalism. Sam Plummer is the undisputed king of the front page expos, but he is growing increasingly bored with tabloid drivel. When he gets the chance to break a rare "real" scoop, he makes a mistake that unravels his world, graphically exposes his own colorful private life, and forces him into the center of a media storm. Convinced it's a conspiracy, Sam undertakes a thrilling investigation in pursuit of the truth that will restore his thrashed reputation . . . only to stumble upon a far more explosive story that could trigger a national security crisis. This really is a story about three in a beda full-blown, political sex scandal. But it also exposes the unsavory threesome that Gordon Brown called the "criminal-media nexus:" politicians, police, and the press