Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780451408822
ISBN number: 0451408829
Label: Onyx
Manufacturer: Onyx
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: May 01, 1999
Publishing house: Onyx
Sale Popularity Level: 871248
Studio: Onyx
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One by one, high-level executives and news correspondents are being brutally murdered in the cutthroat world of television journalism. It soon becomes clear that the killings are linked by a common thread--someone is paying back the system for a lost career. A New York City detective assigned to the case joins forces with a feisty tabloid reporter to root out the killer from the ever growing field of suspects. Their investigation takes them around the globe and into the farthest reaches of one man's obsession with revenge.
Amazon.com Review:
What goes on behind the news is the news in Bill O'Reilly's very first novel, Those Who Trespass: A Novel of Murder and Television. The engaging thriller centers around a string of murders being carried out in almost ritualistic fashion against the major players of Global News Network (GNN) and miscellaneous others involved in the television news industry. First it's a loutish White House correspondent who gets it with a silver spoon in Martha's Vineyard. Next comes a vice president of the network. As the list grows, so does the pressure on police to stop the killer before he strikes again. Enter Tommy O'Malley, a touch New York detective who has his own ideas about how to keep the streets clean. His work--and life--is complicated by the persistence of a charming young reporter named Ashley Van Buren. In her 'Crimetime' column, she dishes a full serving of innuendo and speculation to an audience hungry for just such fare. O'Malley looks like a terrific source to her, and he has to admit she looks pretty good herself.
The real story in Those Who Trespass, however, is that 'the way it is,' as Walter Cronkite would have said, is not a very nice way at all. O'Reilly, a veteran of Fox and an Emmy winner himself, reveals the skullduggery that goes on under the anchor desk and on the other side of the camera: correspondents 'bigfooting' others' stories, young climbers doing anything to secure the anchor seat, and ratings outfits fixing the game to suit themselves. Once you've read this, you will understand the part of the news that's not fit to print.
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Looking over the other reviews, it seems that people who like Bill O'Reilly give this book five stars, and those who despise him give it one. There is little point in trying to separate the book from his politics. The vast majority of people who read this book do so because O'Reilly wrote it. For those who despise Bill -- I am in this camp -- and read this book hoping that it will provide further evidence that Bill is a hypocrite of inferior intellect will not be disappointed. I find it incredible that there are people who admire Bill. When the Fox "News" people claim to give "fair and balanced" reporting, one suspects that they are metaphorically giving the finger to intelligent people who believe that good taste and honesty are important in reporting on important issues. However, Bill passionately insists that he is being fair and balanced, as though he actually believes it. What is incredible is that many of Bill's viewers seem to actually respect him as someone who is fair and balanced, and are indignant when people call him a liar. However, since I firmly believe in honesty, I will not give Bill's book a poor review just because I consider him to be completely lacking in integrity.
The book is mediocre but not terrible. It is quick-moving and has some interesting nuggets of information like the origin of the expression "OK." The seduction scene is handled quite well. Perhaps I am not the best judge of this sort of thing since I have not read a book that described cunnilingus in about thirty years, but I think Bill writes pornography with admirable finesse. For what it is - a potboiler rife with explicit sex and graphic descriptions of violence - this is a fairly decent book. What it is absolutely not, however, is what the blurbs on the cover, and several of the favorable reviews, claim it to be: "A chilling dissection of the world of network news that has me locking my office door!" (Catherine Crier) "A speed-read thriller that unmasks the cutthroat world of television news. So real you'll forget it's fiction." (Vincent Bugliosi) While it is true that Bill does describe the heartless world of network news, he does so merely as a pretext for the true purpose of the novel, namely the sex and violence. This is an adolescent crime-as-adventure novel, and the insights into the world of television news are correspondingly shallow. I hope that Bugliosi wrote this blurb for Bill because he is a friend of his and was just doing him a favor. Anyone who has trouble forgetting that Bill's novel is fiction would not recognize reality if it came up to him and laughed in his face.
(Peter Payne, author of CAPTAIN CALIFORNIA BATTLES THE BEELZEBUBIAN BEASTS OF THE BIBLE).
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Yes, I believe Ron Costello is Bill O'Reilly. An "angry, bitter man." What awful writing and what an unsympathetic, macho, ugly main character.
How anyone could read past the very first chapter of this woman-hating, chest-thumping garbage is beyond me.
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Now many a sane person would profess that Bill O'Reilly writes fiction all the time, and I certainly can't argue with that, but you have to agree that with his very first proper 'novel' the man proves to be a comic genius! Wait, that was unintentional? Whooops...
If you've read any of the reviews already posted, you know the score. Sophomoric writing, poor characterization, use of a character's full name in almost every reference, painful, awkwardly-written sex scenes... I mean, snorkel man? Are you for serious? Apparently Bill was.
The saving grace is that for 25 cents, the price I paid for this piece of dreck, it's worth every penny. I've rarely laughed out loud harder than while reading passages of this book. Make it a game. Pick a random page. Open up and prepare for the funny to scissor kick you right in the face. Don't read this thing in sequence, just go from random to page to random page and enjoy it like a drug-fueled hallucinogenic binge.
Bill obviously has some demons spinning inside his no-spun zone of a brain. A psychiatrist would have a field day with this book. Oh the duality... Bill is apparent in both protagonist and villain. He gets to live out his fantasy of knocking off media types he can't stand all under the guise of fiction. Plus he also resides in the protagonist, Tommy O'Malley. It's safe to say that even though none of us were on those wacky phone calls with Andrea Mackris, reading Bill's endeavor at erotica in these pages gives us all the glimpse we really need. Clumsy, awkward and lacking even a drop of passion, these parts of the book are like Christmas morning.
If you're looking for serious fiction and an engaging story, you'd have better luck writing your own. And you'd probably do better. If you're looking for an occasional comedy break while counting the hours at work, this is just the thing to get you through.
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Would never read a murder mystery, but I read this one! It is more real than fiction and a fascinating story. You won't be disappointed. Great story line.
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When I read Al Franken refer to this book of Bill O'Reilly's, I laughed, almost not believing it could be true. Upon finding that it is, I laugh more; the truth, this time, is a joke: the absurdity of O'Reilly's reality, which could be called O'Reiallity (a parallel universe, we must assume), is enough to fill a head with happy sounds.
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