. . .you’ll love the new Destroyer novel, Killer Ratings, released this week. Somehow the following description reminds me of a perky lady:

In the cutthroat world of the evening news, where “if it bleeds, it leads” is the industry’s lifeblood, the dead-last BCN network is hemorrhaging viewers. On the chopping block is million-dollar anchor Kitty Coughlin, who is one ratings point away from early termination. But when a group of armed men hijack her plane and stage a spectacular near miss of one of America’s most famous landmarks, Kitty’s eyewitness account helps BCN achieve a remarkable ratings rally.
Kitty is riding high . . . until the ratings bubble bursts and her career goes back on life support. Then the next catastrophe strikes.Wherever Kitty Coughlin goes, disaster — and ratings gold — follows. Is Kitty’s uncanny ability to be at the center of the news storm sheer dumb luck or very bad news?
Harold W. Smith of the super-secret agency CURE knows a thing or two about disaster management. He sends in Remo Williams and the remarkable Chiun to tune in, turn off, and pull the plug on whoever is putting Americans at risk.

Yes, author Jim Mullaney (interviewed here recently by John Miller) is my brother-in-law, but all nepotism aside, this is a decidedly conservative series (and there ain’t many of them around in the publishing world).