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Desperate Measures

Since his son's death from cancer, newspaperman Matt Pittman's life has been in quick decline. He quits the obituary job he was demoted to and prepares his suicide. Then his friend and former boss requests that he prepare one last obituary for an ailing political figure Pittman investigated years earlier. Pittman reluctantly agrees but is soon accused of murdering his subject.

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  • "Since his son's death from cancer, newspaperman Matt Pittman's life has been in quick decline. He quits the obituary job he was demoted to and prepares his suicide. Then his friend and former boss requests that he prepare one last obituary for an ailing political figure Pittman investigated years earlier. Pittman reluctantly agrees but is soon accused of murdering his subject."@en
  • "A reporter is about to commit suicide when his editor phones, assigning him to interview a millionaire. He arrives to find the man spirited away, follows him and breaks into a villa just as the man is dying. The next he knows, he's accused of murder and if convicted he'll get the electric chair--and now he wants to live, action having cured him of suicidal thoughts. By the author of Assumed Identity."
  • "A reporter is about to commit suicide when his editor phones, assigning him to interview a millionaire. He arrives to find the man spirited away, follows him and breaks into a villa just as the man is dying. The next he knows, he's accused of murder and if convicted he'll get the electric chair--and now he wants to live, action having cured him of suicidal thoughts. By the author of Assumed Identity."@en
  • "A once-famous journalist devastated by personal tragedy is drawn from the brink of suicide into the most dangerous story of his career."@en
  • "A reporter is about to commit suicide when his editor phones, assigning him to interview a millionaire. He arrives to find the man spirited away, follows him and breaks into a villa just as the man is dying. The next he knows, he's accused of murder and if convicted he'll get the electric chair--and now he wants to live, action having cured him of suicidal thoughts."
  • "A journalist on the brink of committing suicide delays his plans to do a favor for his former boss and finds himself accused of murdering the very man whose obituary he was to write."@en

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  • "Audiobooks"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"
  • "Psychological fiction"@en
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  • "Desperate measures"@en
  • "Desperate measures"

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