- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: St. Martin's Press (Aug 16 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312288778
- ISBN-13: 978-0312288778
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.2 x 2.9 cm
- Shipping Weight: 626 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,255,248 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
CBS veteran Clark (Nobody Knows) brings a network news producer's sensibility to the story of a newsroom in the throes of anthrax-induced pandemonium. In quick chapters that jump-cut among numerous points of view, Clark narrates a nerve-racking week in the life of KEY News producer Annabelle Murphy. When Annabelle's medical correspondent, Dr. John Lee, holds up what he says is a vial of weapons-grade anthrax on morning TV, panic ensues: executives call management meetings, security agents peer into spy cameras, the FBI snoops around and doctors dispense Cipro. Lee's anthrax proves to be table sugar-but then Annabelle's colleague Jerome Henning, who's quietly been writing a nasty tell-all, lands in the hospital and quickly succumbs to the disease. A food-service worker is murdered next, and another person is found dead. Annabelle frets about Jerome's manuscript and tries to figure out what's going on, all the while unwittingly carrying anthrax spores in her coat pocket. Who needs terrorists when there are so many office villains around? There's the aging, control-freak male bigwig, the driven female executive, the insider-trading business reporter and the cocaine-sniffing theater reviewer, to name a few. Clark's spare prose depends on brisk dialogue and rapid-fire action sequences, and her stereotypical characters are pastiches of a few simple virtues, flaws and guilty secrets. Still, the yarn entertains with a little network gossip and a short lesson in bio-terror, all seen through the eyes of a network producer who starts out fearing for her job and ends up fearing for her life.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Booklist
When we last visited the KEY News desk in Nobody Knows (2002), there was a serial rapist on the loose and an overzealous reporter dying to break the story. This time the focus changes from the overzealous reporter to a medical correspondent who, in researching a story on the threat of anthrax, shocks his coworkers and audience by producing a vial of the vile stuff and saying, "If I can get my hands on this, just think what the terrorists might do." Panic ensues, of course, and is further inflamed when it's discovered that someone replaced the real poison powder with mere confectioner's sugar. Where, then, is the anthrax? Annabelle Murphy, the medical segment producer, knew nothing of the prank or the theft but finds herself in hot water when trace spores of anthrax are found in her office. Knowing that her coworkers, the feds, and the police will turn this investigation into a publicity op, Annabelle takes it upon herself to uncover the truth. Clark has perfected the lightweight suspense novel, where in classic Christie fashion, everyone is a potential suspect. Harmless (unlike anthrax), timely, and downright fun. Mary Frances Wilkens
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2.0 out of 5 stars
Much cornier than I would have expected!,
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This review is from: Nowhere to Run (Hardcover)
This was my first MJC book, but having read the reviews, I expected an action-packed exciting book. What I got was a book that dragged on and on. I felt the writing was extremely choppy which was very frustrating (I tend to become a slow reader when the writing is this way... when it is well written, like I am able to fly through a book). I didn't feel the characters were that interesting or exciting... Annabelle, the main character, seemed like a nice sweet working mom, but I really couldn't feel passionate about her because the author just didn't create that for me. And then there's the ending... I really don't think it could have been any cornier... something about someone being allergic to dogs... Someone sneazing near a dog? Oh, please! No offense, but anyone who read and loved this book must never have read a well written, well thought out mystery!
3.0 out of 5 stars
A very quick read.,
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This review is from: Nowhere to Run (Hardcover)
After getting used to the rapid fire, reporting style of writing, I began to enjoy this very quick read. Someone is using Anthrax to get rid of key members of a TV newsroom, some by the Anthrax powder and others because they could be potential witnesses. I would have awarded this novel more stars except that the ending was written in almost "Boys Own Weekly" style...all that was missing was twirling mustachios and sneering laughter.
2.0 out of 5 stars
The ending failed...,
By Syrielle (Suburbs, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nowhere to Run (Hardcover)
This could be a really great suspense novel given the topic and newsroom setting. However, like another reviewer mentioned, there were way too many characters (suspects, of course) to keep up with and almost every page is its own chapter. It feels like a lot of stopping and starting as you read, keeping transitions from being smooth. In addition, which I am starting to see a definite trend when it comes to MJC's novels, she wraps them up way too quickly. There was nothing (no hints, real clues, etc.) to lead the reader to discover the "bad guy" on his own. We found out whodunit when MJC gave us an almost laughable clue in the last few pages of the book.For the reader that prefers mystery stories with solid structure, a steady stream of real clues and a sensible, smart ending, I'd go elsewhere for fulfillment.
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