Firing Offense, (Paperback)

from fromkin

The cover of David Ignatius' "A Firing Offense" carries the following promotional blurb from former Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee: "A dynamite thriller with the coolest, smartest journalist that fiction ever produced." Bradlee's known some smart journalists in his day, including Bob Woodward...

from breic2

Basically a trashy thriller; reasonably well written with nothing very wrong. The main character, a journalist who works closely with the CIA, is drawn very well. The plot is also quite reasonable, e.g., that the US government would automatically interpret an average biology lab in China as a WMD...

from Judiex

In the US in the 1990s, a professional journalist working other jobs, especially those with government connections, was grounds for dismissal. Interaction between journalists and the entities they are covering is the major thread of A FIRING OFFENSE. In this book, it has gone so far that a respec...

from Judiex

In the US in the 1990s, a professional journalist working other jobs, especially those with government connections, was grounds for dismissal. Interaction between journalists and the entities they are covering is the major thread of A FIRING OFFENSE. In this book, it has gone so far that a respec...