Rumor Has It - Softcover

On Halloween morning, Danny Fain sees from his commuter train a child in a ghost costume hit by a car. Fain, an editor for The Bugle , Chicago's second newspaper, assigns a reporter to try to find the child and a story. At the office it is announced that the paper is closing down. Meanwhile they're still publishing, and the staff is scrambling for stories, alternatives, and new jobs. Reporter Tim Penn finds the child and gets a job from a TV station in exchange for an exclusive. There is a labor dispute in the press room, tempers flare, people are attacked, and Fain is torn between loyalty to the paper and his own salvation. When TV attacks Fain for not reporting the accident to the police, his resignation is demanded. The pace in the novel is absolutely jet speed. Dialog is bright and lively, and the commentary on the media is stunning. A first- rate novel.
- Robert H. Donahugh, formerly with Youngstown & Mahoning Cty. P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Dickinson's widely accessible and but nonetheless engaging fourth novel details one frantic day in the life of a Chicago tabloid editor. who learns that the mediocre tabloid where he works is folding.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.