SummaryLauded by critics and Washington insiders alike for his
debut novel The Incumbent, and its national bestselling
sequel, The Nominee, Brian McGrory returns with the third
sensational thriller featuring intrepid newspaperman Jack
Flynn. For his entire career, Jack Flynn has been like a heat-
seeking missile in pursuit of news, with the exclusive goal
of splashing his revelations on the pages of his beloved
Boston Record. But now he comes across a story that might
be the hardest -- and maybe the last -- of his life. Jack is the recipient of an explosive tip involving Toby
Harkins, the fugitive leader of an Irish mafia and
estranged son of none other than Boston Mayor Daniel
Harkins. Toby also happens to be the prime suspect in the
heist of a dozen priceless treasures from the Gardner
Museum -- the largest unsolved art theft in American
history. But no sooner does the morning paper hit the
newsstands with Jack's shocking story than a beautiful
young woman, the mysterious whistleblower, is shot in the
head. As Jack digs into a conspiracy that winds from the
back rooms of City Hall to the genteel parlors of proper
Boston, he must come to terms with the fact that he has
caused an innocent's death, and that the FBI may be using
him in a deadly game of cat and mouse in which the players
involved aren't nearly who or what they seem. As a result,
Jack begins to question the integrity of the job to which
he has devoted his adult life. Engaging, suspenseful, and crackling with newsroom energy,
Dead Line once again offers the kind of explosive action
that's all in a day's work for Jack Flynn, a hero whose
dogged search for truth may not last him until press time.
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