With Friends Like These
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- 1,99 €
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- 1,99 €
Publisher Description
A brilliantly fast-paced thriller set in the world of magazines and high society
A beautiful socialite divorcing one of the richest and most powerful men in Europe...
An investigative journalist with a gift for persuading people to be indiscreet...
A magazine in need of a hot story to boost declining circulation ...
A publishing director with a taste for risk-taking ...
These were always going to be inflammable ingredients, but not one of the key players could have guessed that they would ignite into violent and horrible death, nor that Kit Preston, publishing director of Weiss Magazines, would lose his job, his lover, and stand accused of murder, before the story was even half told ...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Set in the glitzy world of London magazine publishing, this absorbing thriller is strong enough on sly insider atmosphere to compensate for its occasionally weak plot. Managing director of a Conde Nast-like magazine empire, Kit Preston has plenty to worry about as he negotiates the final stages of his divorce and faces his upcoming 40th birthday; but bigger problems begin when his star journalist, Anna Grant, writes a tell-all profile of the discontented wife of German industrialist Bruno Fulger. The article produces a complex aftermath that includes threats of lawsuits, staff infighting, a blistering attack on Anna in a rival magazine and the possible loss of a cosmetics ad account. Meanwhile, Kit and Anna yield to longstanding temptation and fall into each others' arms. When Anna is found strangled in her bed, grief-stricken Kit becomes a suspect and--fired by Fulger, who has bought the company--sets out to find the killer, depending on nothing but his own wits. Though the novel is marred by an improbable, unsatisfying resolution, Coleridge writes compellingly, with a gift for conveying both his characters' inner turmoil and the glossy backdrop of the London high life. FYI: Coleridge is managing director of Conde Nast Magazines in London.
