The Fly on the Wall

De: Tony Hillerman

Narrado por: Erik Bergmann

Ace reporter John Cotton is a fly on the wall, seeing all, hearing all, and keeping out of sight. But the game changes when he finds his best friend’s corpse sprawled on the marble floor of the central rotunda of the U.S. Capitol. Suddenly Cotton knows too much about a scandal centered around a senatorial candidate, a million-dollar scam, and a murder. And he hears the pursuing footsteps of powerful people who have something to hide . . . and a willingness to kill to keep their secrets hidden.

Great story line

This was a very well written story! I very much enjoyed this book it is very professional.

Another exciting Hillerman book!

Hillerman did write other novels then just the Leaphorn and Chee series. It was exciting as expected. The technology was dated i.e. No cellphones and printed newspapers but still makes for a great read/listen!

Well written in a me before cell phones

Well written. What a different world today. Younger readers won't even know of the UPI AP competition, a time before cell phones, and when cities had two (or more) daily newspapers, and a morning paper and an evening paper (like the Philadelphia Daily Inquirer in the morning, and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in the afternoon.

A suspenseful political mystery thriller well written by Tony Hillerman.

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Sorry I Listened To This Book

I have listened to all of Tony Hillerman’s Joe Leaphorn/Jim Chee novels and enjoyed them thoroughly, so I figured I’d give this novel a listen.

It didn’t start out too bad and kept my interest, particularly due to wanting to see how the story would resolve itself. This is where I became disappointed; to begin, this story involves politicians and a Senate race. One side skims money from road projects and kills to keep it from being reported, but the story gets printed anyway. The reporter who investigated and wrote the story turns out to sympathize with the criminal (Democrat) when he finds out his motives are to fund a campaign against the opposite Party (Republican). Well, when the criminal realizes the story is printed, he goes to the press conference that the Republican is holding, and shoots him dead, with the plan that he would do everything he could do to keep his shooting in the news so that the paper could hide the corruption and cover-up murders. The story ends with the reporter deciding to help bury the story he investigated and reported on.

Cheap moralizing that since the Democrat was on the side of the Angels (in the writer’s mind) that multiple murders and government corruption are okay and justified.

Could have taken the last chapter out.

Great Mystery

Lots of twists and mystery. Super "who dun it". Definitely did not figure it out.