Praise for Deadline Man... "A knockout novel that leaves the reader with renewed appreciation for independent daily newspapers." -Booklist starred review He"s a man we know only as "the columnist." He writes for a newspaper in Seattle, isn"t afraid to stir up trouble, and keeps his life-including his multiple lovers and his past-in safe compartments. But it"s all about to be violently upended when he goes out on what seems like the most mundane of assignments, looking into a staid company that "never makes news." The moment one of his sources takes a dive off a downtown skyscraper, the columnist is plunged into a harrowing maze of murder, intrigue, and secrets that powerful forces intend to keep hidden at all costs. All he has to go on is a corporate world where nothing is as it seems, increasingly menacing encounters with mysterious federal agents, and the unsettling meme "eleven/eleven." Meanwhile, the paper itself is dying. So the columnist joins with an aggressive young...