Exposure [Audiobook, Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Evelyn Anthony (Author), Sian Thomas (Narrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1994

While investigating obnoxious media mogul Harold King, anticorruption columnist Julia Hamilton travels to Germany and runs into murder as she pieces together a deadly story rooted in World War II. 25,000 first printing. National ad/promo.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Veteran thriller writer Anthony ( The Doll's House ) deftly introduces suspenseful intrigue on the very first page of her new novel and maintains the narrative tension throughout. Julia Hamilton is an aggressive journalist on a top London newspaper whose shrewdly manipulative editor and publisher, Sir William Western, has big plans for her. She is to head an investigative column called "Exposure," and her first target is the hugely successful communications tycoon Harold King. Ruthless, power-hungry and utterly corrupt, King has kept his private life and his unsavory past well concealed--with the help of a small band of hired killers. As Julia and her boss, Ben Harris (also her lover), travel through Germany and England delving into King's background, they are shaken by the brutal murder of a potential witness and become aware that they themselves are being stalked. Opposition to their insistent prying comes from an unexpected quarter when they discover that Western has his own secrets to protect. An impossibly larger-than-life villain and a saccharine portrait of Julia's family blunt the story's edges, but provocative entanglements and some sharply defined politicians and journalists who skirt the edges of decency sustain interest until the finale.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Booklist

"Exposure" is the name of a new feature for Julia Hamilton, an ace reporter for the Sunday Herald who has worked her way up from nowhere with her dogged determination, her quiet but unmistakable courage, and her unimpeachable integrity. She's even impressed crusty old Ben Harris, and a romance is kindled, once Julia has rid herself of a rather unsavory boyfriend. Anyhow, the feature has been devised by Julia's publisher, Lord Western, head of Western International Enterprises, as a device to expose wrongdoing in high places. But he has another motive: Harold King, his archrival, is scheming to take over Western International. King isn't the embodiment of absolute evil, but he comes close. He's a clever fellow, though, and has covered his tracks. Ben and Julia follow the coldest of trails to Germany and unravel a series of events at the end of World War II; once the first thread is unraveled, the entire fabric is revealed. A lot of people end up dead, but plucky Julia and loyal Ben do their work well, and matters are brought to their happy, efficient conclusion. John Mort --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Chivers Audio Books; Unabridged edition (March 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0745143180
• ISBN-13: 978-0745143187
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.4 x 2.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,167,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A good thriller, April 11, 2006

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This review is from: Exposure (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) (Library Binding)

Julia Hamilton was a high-profile journalist with Western International Newspapers. When press magnate Lord Western offered her a job with the "Sunday Herald" she couldn't refuse to become the head of a new riveting feature - Exposure - its aim to expose corruption and malpractice in high places. Her first target was to go for Western's enemy and rival, the business and media tycoon Harold King, alias Hans Koenig. Koenig was a man of mystery, a man who had hidden the truth about his beginnings in Germany and who would do anything to keep his past secret.
Julia recruits her former editor, Ben Harris, a difficult and embittered man, and together they travel to Germany where their search leads them to Jean Adams, the niece of King's first wife, and witness of his sinister past. When Jean becomes the victim of a savage sexual killing, Julia is even more determined to uncover King's past. Not knowing the danger she is in, Julia begins to uncover secrets that have been buried for fifty years, hidden not only by King but also by Western, her boss, who proves to be far from an innocent victim of this particular exposure.
One of Evelyn Anthony's best thrillers.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exposure, July 7, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Exposure (Audio Cassette)

I use books on tape as a way of enduring long, boring, road trips, tedious chores, and as a distraction while exercising. The book has got to be interesting enough to keep me going, or I'll stop it after the first cassette and find another. "Exposure" was a shot in the dark as I'd never heard of the author and don't know anybody else who has read or listened to this book. However, after listening to it, I'll not hesitate to look for more by Evelyn Anthony. The plot is interesting from the beginning and kept me intrigued, moving inexorably through a carefully woven and suspenseful story. The characters are well-drawn, complex, and believable. Their personalities, interactions, and relationships form an integral part of the story. The author cuts from one scene to another, drawing a picture of what is happening with each of the main characters simultaneously, as the suspense builds and the story winds to a climax. This book reminded me much of those by Ken Follett, whose taped editions I have greatly enjoyed. The reader, Sian Thomas, does a marvelous job, using various foreign accents easily without seeming fake or "corny", and helping to build the multiple settings and moods, from a London newspaper room, English countryside, Munich pub, or New York corporate power center.