"A bone-cracking first novel."
—The New York Times Book Review
The New York Times sends reporter Jack McMorrow to Maine to write a story about a far-flung place on the edge of the western Maine mountains. He falls in love with the town of Androscoggin so much he decides to stay there. Now as the editor of a small town weekly, McMorrow questions a ruling that a colleague died by accidental drowning. He quickly realizes there is more to this Maine town than appears on the surface and that the residents are not all eager to let reporters from away know about local secrets. In McMorrow’s case, the unknown threatens to be his undoing as he is threatened, assaulted and nearly drowned when he refuses to back off the story.
The book’s fictional town of Androscoggin was inspired by Rumford, a place where Gerry Boyle worked for six months as a reporter at the Rumford Falls Times. Deadline, which Boyle started writing on a portable Smith Corona typewriter while working at the Morning Sentinel in Waterville, launched the Jack McMorrow series and led to thirteen additional novels.
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Read more about the creation of the series here.
Deadline (#1)
Written by Gerry Boyle
Binding: Softcover
Pages: 288
Genre: Fiction | Crime
Ages: All
ISBN: 978-1-939017-06-2
Publication Date: 2014 (Islandport edition)
Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 x .75
Shipping Weight: 0.75 lbs.
