Press Corpse: A Knight & Day Mystery (Knight & Day Mysteries) [Hardcover]

Ron Nessen (Author), Johanna Neuman (Author)

Book Description

Series: Knight & Day Mysteries | Publication Date: May 1996

The second title in a sizzling new mystery series by a savvy Washington-based husband and wife team, written by former White House insider Ron Nessen. Press Corpse brings back the dynamic twosome of right-wing radio host Jerry Knight and Washington Post leftist reporter Jane Day. When a well-known journalist is killed at an event where the President is speaking, Knight and Day can't help but get involved.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

The Washington-based husband-and-wife team of Nessen and Neuman bring Jerry Knight and Jane Day back (after Knight and Day) into the often malicious world of politics and scandal. A prime example of the attraction of opposites, Knight is a king of conservative talk radio while Day is a liberal reporter who works the White House beat for the Washington Post. Both are present at a White House press dinner when well-known CNN reporter Dan McLean keels over dead at the head table, not far from President Dale Hammond, a staunch conservative. Exploring, Day unearths information which exposes McLean's infidelities, as well as his probing of a secret memo from the end of the Vietnam War. For Knight, Day and rumpled D.C. homicide detective, A.L. Jones, the question is who was the intended victim and how is the Vietnamese community involved? Knight and Day are cheerfully outspoken adversaries who outwardly spar while trying to untangle their ambiguous relationship, and Jones is great as the melancholy cop, with his love of architecture and his dejection at failing efforts to curtail street crime. Fast-paced and crisply styled, the icing on the cake is the clever conclusion at the Vietnam Wall.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Booklist

Nessen and Neuman borrow their old milieu in the presidential press corps (as secretary and reporter, respectively) for this second installment of their series. The first, Knight & Day , generated interest from the antagonism between Knight, a reactionary radio commentator, and Day, a left-liberal newspaper reporter. This case commences at a presidential dinner, at which a CNN reporter keels over, poisoned. The First Lady claims hubby was the target of liberals desperate to stop his conservative program, a view Knight airs fully on his show, but Day discovers the deceased had been stalking a story implicating high officials with intentionally leaving behind POWs in Vietnam. That old resentments are indeed involved is underscored by a vet's murder of the national security adviser, a highly visible crime whose dangling ends will no doubt be tied together in the authors' third sequel. What's in the CNN guy's notebooks? What's the Magnum Project? Will Knight & Day get together? Stay tune for more light, undemanding entertainment. Gilbert Taylor

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Forge; 1st edition (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312855923
• ISBN-13: 978-0312855925
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,403,844 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Cover tributes are wrong; amateurish attempt with bad climax, June 24, 1997

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This review is from: Press Corpse: A Knight & Day Mystery (Knight & Day Mysteries) (Hardcover)

This novel has nuggets of interest, but the story and action feel contrived at every turn. It has the aura of someone trying to write a good mystery story rather than the aura of a good story. Like a movie in which the director's gimmicks are visible, the authors' mechanics are visible on page after page. The tributes "quoted" on the cover are misleading. This is not an enjoyable read, and the ending was like a last straw insult to the dogged reader who persevered and read the whole book. Ouch.