The Fly on the Wall CD Low Price, (Audiobook)

from danhammang

This is a thoroughly enjoyable book. The plot is good, the characters believable. You may need to be a follower of the news industry because Hillerman digs deep into his career as a journalist to write this book. It is set in an era that is hard to believe now, once existed: late night rifling of...

from SusanOleksiw

This mystery is the second one published by Hillerman, after his first mystery set in Navajo country, The Blessing Way. In the Fly on the Wall, John Cotton is a statehouse reporter and has just filed his story when a colleague comes into the pressroom. Merrill McDaniels, known as Mac, comes into ...

from tjsjohanna

For a guy who makes his living with words, John Cotton is pretty canny about staying alive. The most interesting thing about this novel is the tension between two idea: one, that the general public deserves the unbiased facts and two, that the ends justify the means - you can't rely on the public...

from tzelman

Convoluted suspense tale. Sufficiently murky and danger-laden, albeit confusing.

from buffalogr

This is an enjoyable book. The plot is good, the characters believable. The story involves digging through paperwork to figure corruption. The story has been bypassed by technological advances since it's 1971 writing. That said, it's a convoluted suspense tale. Yes, it's a non-Navajo story set in...