What if the newsmakers are actually making the news happen?
Set in the ruthless high-stakes media industry Wiehl knows so well, this scorching expose will keep you up way too late turning the pages.
The story kicks off when Erica is hired by the Global News Network, recently founded by idiosyncratic billionaire Nylan Hastings. This break is just what Erica needs to boost her career, and her esteem, after a series of mistakes cost her a job, her marriage and custody of her 8-year-old daughter Jenny.
On her very first assignment in Battery Park, Erica witnesses a Staten Island ferry crash that kills and injures scores of people. It's a terrible tragedy, but gives her career an immediate boost. Just weeks later, presidential frontrunner Kay Barrish, the most admired woman in America, collapses while Erica is interviewing her live. Erica's frantic attempts to save Barrish are caught on camera, and she becomes a household name. But she is troubled by the coincidences - what are the odds that both tragedies would occur while the cameras were rolling? Erica's investigation leads her into the heart of darkness, a place where none of the rules of civilization apply, and where her own - and her daughter's - lives are in danger. Is Nylan Hastings aiming for more - far more than just domination of television news?
THE NEWSMAKERS tears the lid off the media's manipulation of the news and takes "ripped from the headlines" to a level that only a broadcast insider can deliver.
