"A fast-paced thriller that puts you inside the international newsroom, bringing to life the people behind the headlines"
For readers with an interest in what happens behind the scenes in the newsrooms – of which there are many – The Shot is sure to satisfy their thirst for the next big scoop.
Given her first chance in the spotlight, young TV journalist Samira is out to prove her worth. Alongside seasoned photographer Kris, they take a photograph – a shot that has thrown their whole mission and lives in peril.
As a former CNN news executive, author Sarah Sultoon packs her novel with the kind of details that only someone who’s been on the frontline of war reporting can – from what life is like in conflict zones, to the petty squabbles in the newsroom.
What many readers may be left with is the full effect and exposure of the realities of war reporting. Sultoon’s style never veers into gratuitous violence, but her book is made only more visceral by the current conflict in Ukraine.
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Samira is an up-and-coming TV journalist, working the nightshift at a major news channel and yearning for greater things. So when she's offered a trip to the Middle East, with Kris, the station's brilliant but impetuous star photographer, she leaps at the chance
In the field together, Sami and Kris feel invincible, shining a light into the darkest of corners ... except the newsroom, and the rest of the world, doesn't seem to care as much as they do. Until Kris takes the photograph.
With a single image of young Sudanese mother, injured in a raid on her camp, Sami and the genocide in Darfur are catapulted into the limelight. But everything is not as it seems, and the shots taken by Kris reveal something deeper and much darker ... something that puts not only their careers but their lives in mortal danger.
Sarah Sultoon brings all her experience as a CNN news executive to bear on this shocking, searingly authentic thriller, which asks immense questions about the world we live in. You'll never look at a news report in the same way again...
The Shot features in the following genres: Political / Legal Thrillers, Crime and Mystery, Thriller and Suspense, Psychological thriller, Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Social issues, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Napoleonic War fiction, Fiction, Fiction: narrative themes, War, combat and military adventure fiction, Action Adventure, eBooks of the Month, Recommendations
The Shot is available in Paperback, Ebook (Epub)
The Shot was written by Sarah Sultoon and published by Orenda Books
