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A thriller involving a controversial manuscript that someone very powerful does not want published. A suspensful book about a book. Fantastic!

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dugoutdug23's review against another edition

3.0

The book centers on a anonymous manuscript delivered to literary agent Isabel Reed which is a tell all book about one of the worlds most successful media moguls, Charlie Wolf. With the improbable help of a rogue CIA agent, they seek to destroy the manuscript and find the anonymous author. The book jumps around quite a lot and was just an ok read.

chaninb's review against another edition

4.0

Very well-written. Start off a bit slow and then builds steam.

kimabill's review against another edition

3.0

3 1/2 stars. This was a pretty good thriller that I think I heard about when Stephen King recommended it on Twitter. In this book, someone has written a tell-all biography of a very powerful man and has sent the manuscript in to be published. But there are lots of people who don't want the book to get out and who will go to any means necessary to stop it. So, I know that "high energy thriller" and "book publishing" don't necessarily seem to go together, but somehow everything feels very urgent and tense throughout the book. I think it helps that the book takes place all in one day, so that made it feel frantic and fast-paced like an episode of 24. I did have a little bit of trouble keeping some of the characters straight, as far as who was a publisher, an editor, an assistant, etc., but it didn't really matter that much. The book had a lot of nice twists and turns and was ultimately a fun read.