Deceit, James Siegel
Deceit, James Siegel
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Deceit

Author: James Siegel

Narrator: Phil Sheridan

Unabridged: 10 hr 44 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/15/2006


Synopsis

A disgraced journalist.
The scoop of a lifetime.
If it doesn’t redeem him...
It’ll kill him.

It looks like just another car crash: a head-on collision on a lonely stretch of desert highway that leaves one driver dead. But Tom Valle, the local newspaperman assigned to the story, is damned good at spotting lies. And for Valle, once a star reporter at America’s most prestigious daily, this so-called accident may be just the ticket he needs to resurrect his career and get him out of the aptly named town of Littleton, California, for good.

Yet as Valle eagerly starts investigating, he finds himself the only one who cares about getting the story right. As he starts checking facts, and unveiling lie after lie, he finds himself completely alone–and negotiating a dark trail of corruption, cover-ups, fraud, and murder that stretches back for decades.

The more he discovers, the closer he gets to the heart of a conspiracy that threatens to destroy him. From a seedy after-hours bar in L.A. to a remote cabin in the woods to the dark corridors of a psychiatric ward, Valle is desperately seeking redemption in the truth.

But, as the boy who cried wolf so many times before, will anyone believe him?

Or is that exactly the reason he was assigned this story in the first place?

Reviews

Goodreads review by Bruce

Starts out as a very interesting story. It has wacky twists that make it hard to believe. The ending is really far out and unsatisfying. This is the third book of Siegal's that I've read and the first, "Derailed", was his best. They just got less satisfying for me as I read the next. I'm totally don......more

Goodreads review by Deniz

A first-rate thriller. The more I read this, the more I wanted and hoped that the plot would base on a true story, or at least that it would contain a grain of truth. The author spins a fantastic tale of his feverish imagination: A remote American town is wiped out by a flood as a result of a dam co......more

Goodreads review by Phil

This book was in a holiday home I was staying in. I have never heard of the author or the book but it sounded pretty interesting and so I gave it a go. Great book. Easy to read with witty and sparkling dialogue. The protagonist is a disgraced reporter who has taken up a job with a small town newspap......more

Goodreads review by Sharon

First time I picked up anything by this author. The plot dragged at times but the pace picked up nicely later in the book. It was just a little too clever to be believable in my opinion but it was also a little scary to realize that government cover-ups do happen and that someone can easily disappea......more

Goodreads review by Alberto

Me ha gustado. Al principio engancha su sentido del humor aunque no parece una historia que vaya mucho más allá, pero a medida que avanzamos no solo el humor no desaparece sino que el argumento desemboca en un curioso misterio más profundo de lo que imaginamos de inicio. De hecho me ha llevado a des......more