Libel the Dead (udgave 1994)

"Mike Lindenthal, the successful young executive editor of New York's Beyond magazine, has his hands full when popular West Coast TV talk-show host Bangor Laudicek threatens a lawsuit against the magazine. Bangor claims to have been misquoted and portrayed as condoning drug use by a writer who has attacked him in print before. Retained by Beyond, Manhattan's top libel lawyer, Robert Struiker, flies out to Los Angeles with Mike in tow, determined to contain the damage and settle out of court. To this end he intends to give Bangor what he wants most - the errant writer's head on a platter." "Mike's loyalties to the magazine are tested when he finally meets the writer, beautiful, off-the-wall Trilla McGuffy, but his conflict of interest is dissolved when Bangor Laudicek falls nineteen floors to his death." ""She can say anything she wants about him now," Struiker sneers. "You can't libel the dead."" "Unraveling the complex web of relationships connecting a cast of bizarre characters to Bangor, Mike and Struiker produce chilling answers that come with sudden, mind-shattering violence."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved