But he didn't intend to stop trying to solve the puzzle because, as he said, 'The public has a right to know about it' (Hillerman 1971: Promotional copy from the dust jacket). And that's because I just had the living hell scared out of me, and I'm still scared.' : The fly on the wall (9780922890309) by Hillerman, Tony and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Something or other involving that insurance company, and that collusion on highway contracts.'Īnd later, to Janey Janoski, of the dark, dark eyes, he said, 'I don't want the police to know where I am because I don't want anybody to know where I am. 'It looks like there's three unfinished projects he was working on.

Whoever it involved killed him,' Cotton told Captain Whan of the local police force. 'I think Mac was after a story somebody didn't want printed. And Cotton's only hope of learning who was stalking him lay in senseless columns of notebook numbers and meaningless abbreviations. The rules of the game were suddenly reversed. Instead they led him into the lion's den.

If he could find time to unravel the cryptic entries, they would - it seemed - lead him to a news story of high-level political corruption. Some black marker markings on some of the pages. Dust Jacket has a plastic covering over it. Then a notebook left behind by the death of Merrill McDaniels, a competitor, offered Cotton a fairly easy headline. Ex-Library Hardcover with usual markings, stamps, and stickers. If sometimes someone's reputation was destroyed, that was the price he paid for playing. The game was rough - played with cold, impersonal detachment.

He and the other newsmen of the capitol pressroom were the hunters. To John Cotton, political reporting was a game of hounds and hares. TONY HILLERMAN & Anne Hillerman - Build A Lot -Leaphorn, Chee & Manuelito series.

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