Brock Nicholls screwed up. Now, he’s stuck where his career started, Baton Rouge. When an arsonist begins torching the city, it’s his ticket back to the top, but he’ll have to fight his boss and partner to get there. When he meets the arsonist, Brock discovers he has one more demon to exorcise…
For years now, Rick Portier and I have ruminated on the rewards of writing. During countless phone calls and more than a few times in Vegas, we’ve knocked back top-shelf liquor and traded lies about jack-slapping the muse. Now, that dodgy little photog has put his imagination where his mouth is. With Shooter in the Crosshairs, Rick’s combined his knowledge of the news business with his gift for depiction to create a freakin’ page-turner. The nerve of that guy!
When his television career went down in flames on the steps of a Dallas courthouse, it made national news and earned the TV photog a night in lock-up. Now, Brock’s stuck in the place where it all started, Baton Rouge, working for a mental midget like Percy Finch and his “Good News” strategy that has viewers flocking to the competition. If that weren’t bad enough, Finch has Brock locked into shooting pet parades for Katie Couric wannabes like Nancy Patrick….
Are you kidding me? With a set-up like that, square-dancing zombies could do-see-do all over the next chapter and a half and I’M STILL IN! Luckily for us though, the -AHEM- author steers clear of the undead and instead sticks to the streets he knows so well. It’s that authenticity that will leave anyone who’s hoisted or stared into a fancycam nodding their head in recognition. As for me, I’ll try and keep my head out of the nearest oven as I ingest the quest of one Brock Nicholls, a world-weary news shooter who I’d love to see team up with G. Lee. First though, there’s an arsonist to catch and I know just the man for it.
Along the way, Brock reveals newsroom secrets and rails against everything that is wrong with the business he loves, a business that’s cost him every relationship he’s ever had. When he finally comes face-to-face with the man behind the sheet, Brock discovers he has one more demon to exorcise – one from his youth. In order to do that, he’ll have to decide between telling the story of a lifetime and sending a murderer to jail.
How does it end? How the hell do I know? I’m reading this thing along with the rest of you! So while I don’t need an extra copy, surely there’s someone in your life who does. So buy Shooter in the Crosshairs and help a brother achieve his dream. And do it soon, before the artist formerly known as Turdpolisher lands a three picture deal and won’t return any of our calls.
