In this biting satire, Mark T. Sullivan takes readers on a hilarious and disturbing look inside the modern newspaper business as it lurches toward extinction. Sullivan, a former investigative reporter takes no prisoners in his take on the bloated egos, twisted personality quirks and deep dark secrets inside the world of HARD NEWS.

Gideon McCarthy is a disgraced reporter trying to work his way off the night cops beat. Scarred by personal tragedy, locked in a bitter custody battle for two young children, he believes his career is all but over. If he has any hope of redemption, he must solve a series of savage killings.

Prentice LaFontaine is McCarthy's best friend, gossip extraordinaire and the black sheep of The Post, the Southern California newspaper for which they both toil. News, as he is known, wants the truth behind a multi-million dollar waterfront development.

Together they will solve a mystery behind a thirty-year-old mystery that may involve The Post itself. Along the way, they will wrestle with the follies and foibles of fellow workers like the Zombie, an obituary writer who has not spoken in ten years, Roy Orbison, the rewrite man who dresses like the dead rock star and Isabel Perez, a political writer who suffers fashion bulimia, not to mention the assistant managing editor who acts out his bizarre sex fantasies with his research assistant.

A taut thriller as well as a raucous exposé, HARD NEWS delivers the paper in a way you will never forget.