About the book
A journalist uncovers the biggest scoop of his life — then starts bending the truth.
It is Jason Crowthorne’s twenty-ninth birthday and he is desperate. When he won Young Journalist of the Year, he landed the job in newspapers that he always dreamt of, but since then his career has been stagnating. Now he learns he is to be replaced by a cheaper hack. But then he uncovers the biggest scoop of his life.
Teenager Liam Glass lies in a coma after a mugging. Jason chases down tantalising rumours that the boy is the secret love-child of one of the Premier League’s top strikers. It is a story he could sell for big money to the tabloids and spark a career-boosting campaign against knife-crime. Only, try as he might, he cannot prove it.
A chance call from a sleazy footballing agent hands Jason an unexpected way to sex up the story. All he has to do is tell a little lie.
But to Jason’s horror, that lie puts Liam’s life at risk. Sucked into a whirlpool of greed and moral corruption, can Jason find a way to save the boy’s life, or has he lost his soul to chasing headlines?