The Nick Cross Reports
Novels
by R. T. Bowersox
Nick Cross is a street-hardened investigative reporter driven to expose the truth, even when it costs him his safety, his relationships, and often his way out. His beat is whatever he makes it -- from arson to drugs, corruption to murder, his byline runs under them all.
The Cross Reports series brings to muscular life the play-by-play, behind-the-scenes chronicling of the most explosive stories Nick Cross has covered in over twenty years of hard-nosed reporting. Richly cast with characters you might find in today's headlines, each book unfolds at the pace of a man with a deadline, whose cynical eye and jugular instincts barely keep him one step ahead of those who are trying to stop him.
The Cross Reports series shows what it really takes to write the news.
The Cross Reports series brings to muscular life the play-by-play, behind-the-scenes chronicling of the most explosive stories Nick Cross has covered in over twenty years of hard-nosed reporting. Richly cast with characters you might find in today's headlines, each book unfolds at the pace of a man with a deadline, whose cynical eye and jugular instincts barely keep him one step ahead of those who are trying to stop him.
The Cross Reports series shows what it really takes to write the news.
Nick Cross may have reached his limit. He's decided he's seen too much of the streets -- too much crime and betrayal, too much death. So when the opportunity presents itself to trade the empty ugliness of those streets for the opulent luxury suites of the re-election campaign of Senator Jefferson Harper, Cross jumps at it. But when the suspicious death of a street bookie Cross has called a friend ties the Harper campaign to something darker, he's caught between the two stories -- one driven by loyalty to an old friend, one motivated by instinct telling him to go deeper. But when the political world of money and power are weaponized to stop him, it becomes apparent that Cross hasn't escaped the ugly danger of the streets -- he's just traded it for a version that wears a better suit.
In the second Nick Cross Reports novel, Cross is thrust into the headlines himself as a witness to the brutal murder of a woman and the attempted kidnapping of her young daughter. But Cross's instincts tell him there's a bigger story here when his pal Lieutenant Jack Riggs reveals that the victim had multiple identities, and a high-powered lawyer to the criminal underworld has shown up trying to take custody of the dead woman's child for an unnamed client. Then Cross discovers the dying woman had slipped something into his pocket as held her in her last moments -- a $400 million winning lottery ticket. Now Cross isn't just chasing the story, he IS the story, he's holding the key to it, and there are some very nasty people willing to kill to get their hands on it and snuff his investigation.
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