Journalist

For fans of Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan and Jan Burke's Irene Kelly series comes a novel of a reporter's shadowy past from the author of The Clearing. In the middle of the night, in war-torn Rwanda, journalist Roland Keene leaves his hotel to find armed rebels to interview. Some would call it a suicide mission. Roland wouldn't disagree. Though Keene's work as a foreign correspondent keeps him on the roadand at arm's length from his problemsit doesn't stop him from being hounded by the people he betrayed on his way to the front page... When Keene started at the bottom, he was living paycheck to paycheck, with no big breaks coming his way. So he decided to make his own. He orchestrated a robberyone designed to cast himself as the herobut it went all wrong and turned into a high-profile murder. Despite everything, Keene got a foot in the door of a newsroom. Immersed in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism, he broke another storythis one of citywide corruptionbut also started accumulating powerful enemies among his colleagues. Now, with his crimes about to be revealed, Keene has to decide to what lengths he'll go to ensure his secrets never see the light of day...