Hard Boiled Headline by Greg Crites

And what is this novel about you ask? Is this more nonsense? Uh, no... yeah... maybe. Heh! If you are looking for Dunkin, or Devlin, or Gabe—this is not it. This book borders on serious. I think I was out of liquor when I wrote it—but I can't remember. When you own a media outlet, you have a responsibility. A responsibility to safe guard the citizenry from their government. But how far do you go? This is a story about the small town newspaper business. A look at how one professional newsman uses the fourth estate exactly how it is NOT meant to be used. When you lower journalism to high comedy, is it still journalism? Who knows. But in this book, Hard Boiled Headline, a gang of unusual newspaper hacks accept a large cash payment to start a newspaper during election season. There's only one string attached to the cash—use the paper to unseat an entire county's crooked officials.