ISBN: 0-88739-278-4
256 pp.
Size: 6 x 9
Pub Date: 4/2000
Hardcover
Price: $24.50
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Phantom on his Wheel
Tom Rosenburg
After working at the News for eighteen years, Steven Block is relegated to covering the crime beat nights and weekends as punishment for his involvement in the union. Bridling under the humiliation of his forced martyrdom, his marriage straining under the pressure, Steven searches for a way to get back on top once again. He receives a tip that local bingo games are giving out illegally large cash prizes, driving some honest games out of business. There's more to the bingo story than meets the eye-like grand theft and pedophilia-but he is forced to navigate the politics of the profit-motivated paper, his story stalled by lack of evidence and vengeful editors.
Review: "Tom Ross writes a provocative and fascinating morality tale. And although this is a story of politics and honor-centered on an unusually incisive look at the newspaper world-he never loses his sense of the very real people that make up that world."
-Deborah Blum, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of Sex on the Brain
"[Most] impressive is author Tom [Rosenberg's] use of positive language, which gives the novel a unique credibility and confidence."
-Jan Haag, Chair, Journalism Dept.,Sacramento City College
"A fascinating blend of unions, newspapers, politics, conservation, and society-and how a decent guy can get screwed by any one of them."
-Larry Hatfield, International vice president, The Newspaper Guild
Bio: THOMAS ROSENBERG has written extensively for newspapers and has done commentaries on public radio. He has written three books on bicycle touring.
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