Scoop alex cross

Scoop alex crossSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of the century, Scoop is a "thoroughly enjoyable, uproariously funny" satire of the journalism business (New York Times). Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner

They move to Hollywood and all his dreams seem to have come true

We come to understand the laserlike focus that is his hallmark

putting an entire city in lethal danger

Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague

the astonishing wonder of the universe

Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is the school mascot

and emotional balance

a charmer with ties to terrorism that run deeper than a buried body

Yet what started as a lark turns deadly serious as the number of players is whittled down

When Connie's brother Toby — Meredith's high school boyfriend — arrives

Paha Sapa's long life is driven by a dramatic vision he experienced as a boy in his people's sacred Black Hills

Henry VIII's schismatic divorce