Dead Air
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- $4.99
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- $4.99
Publisher Description
Talk is cheap, but when this radio host takes action, she may pay the ultimate price.
An outspoken, brash, native New Yorker, Sammy Greene isn't afraid to ruffle a few feathers at Ellsford University, her ultraconservative New England college. Host of "The Hot Line", a talk-radio show on campus station WELL, Sammy tackles the toughest, most controversial issues facing Ellsford's students. When Sammy discovers the body of Dr. Burton Conrad, one of Ellsford's most esteemed professors, her journalistic drive kicks in and she sets out to discover what happened to the beloved professor. But when several Ellsford students mysteriously disappear, Sammy realizes she's uncovered the seamy, terrifying underbelly of this prestigious institute of higher education. With the entire campus in peril, and demons from her past close behind, Sammy Greene must race to find answers. Along the way, she'll discover some unlikely allies-and even more unlikely enemies. If Sammy isn't careful, someone is going to make sure that she signs off-for good.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in Vermont in the mid-1990s, this uneven thriller from physicians Shlian (Rabbit in the Moon with Joel Shlian) and Reid (Where Angels Fear to Tread) addresses some important medical ethics issues. Sammy Greene, a communications major at Ellsford University, loves hosting her controversial radio show about campus events, such as an animal rights protest by a conservative Christian group. When the crusading student journalist pursues a scoop about the suspicious suicides of some Ellsford University students and faculty members (a genetics professor blows his brains out after Sammy attempts to interview him), Sammy whirls into Nancy Drew hyperdrive. The at times far-fetched plot leads to a pharmaceutical institute using unsuspecting students as guinea pigs. Readers should be prepared for a cartoonish bad guy.
