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Hard News (Rune Trilogy) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jeffery Deaver
Publisher: Coronet
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 145949
Media: Paperback
Pages: 416
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.3 x 1.3
ISBN: 0340793139
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780340793138
ASIN: 0340793139
Publication Date: March 1, 2001
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 The third of the 'Rune' trilogy May 13, 2007
'Hard News' is not such a bad book at all. It is definitely full of twists - especially in the last 100+ pages there are so many twists that it's hard to keep thinking straight. First, the prime murder suspect is presumed guilty, then innocent. Then he turns out guilty after all but that proves to be wrong again, and so on... only the last few pages reveal the truth about him.
Rune, the main character, is a free-spirited and very disorganized girl in her early twenties - and I found her character very likeable and endearing. Rune is a reporter/cameraman and very committed to freeing the above mentioned murder suspect from prison, where his fellow inmates are trying to kill him.
One thing I found strange was that in the book, Jeffrey Deaver constantly refers to 3-year old Courtney as 'a baby' - even a policeman in the story describes Rune and Courtney as 'a young woman and a baby'. I doubt that a real policeman would call a walking, talking (and wise-cracking) little girl a baby. In the beginning Rune assumes that Courtney is still on baby food, but then she ends up feeding her sardines straight from the tin and even oysters. Another thing that struck me odd: When Courtney is being kidnapped from her foster parents, no further action is being taken, no one looks for the little girl although they are aware of her disappearance (in real life, Social Services and the police would certainly search for a small child that goes missing from its foster home). From all this, I can only guess that the author himself is childless, and he certainly let his imagination run wild when it comes to the three year old girl.
All in all I found this book an easy read - it has an equal share of suspense and humour - and although I found the ending a little strange (not bad, just strange) and over-the-top, it is still a quite entertaining book.
Hard News was written in 1991.
 Fits squarely into the holiday novel category July 31, 2001
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This book is not the most engrossing you will find, the characters are uninspiring, two dimensional and interact with each other awkwardly. Each twist and turn becomes all too predictable and I got very little involvement with the story as it unfolded. To be frank I did not care by the end of it whether the heroin triumphed or went on holiday for a week (which might have made a more interesting story).
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