Something Sacred

by RupertMorgan (Author)

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  2001

  $4.40

  Nick Carraway was once a journalist and a damned good one too. So how come he's about to take one of the longest journeys any man can make - from prison cell to court room to stand trial for murder? As the fateful, first day of his trial opens, so Nick reflects with irony and wry humour, anger and affection on how he came to stand accused of murder, and remembers those who played their part. There's Jordan Baker, the poor persecuted and now dead transvestite; Frank Bosch, the crooked cop Nick thought he had in his pocket; Kevin Connor, editor of the Entropolis Daily Post, and McQueen, the all-seeing, all-knowing medial mogul and chairman of NewsCorp. But above all, Nick is haunted by the memory of Jamey Gatz- the beautiful, mysterious heroine of a subway shooting who he so desperately believed would be his last big break, the story that would make his name, his fortune - and change his life. And how right he was - for life would never be the same again... Confirming its author as a young storyteller and writer of supreme talent and invention, Something Sacred is a remarkably powerful achievement - at once a searing satire on the power of the media, its ability to create and destr