Night Talk
A Novel
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4.0 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A late-night talk-show host fascinated by the paranormal becomes entangled in a deadly conspiracy in Night Talk, from #1 all-night radio host George Noory.
Greg Nowell is a voice in the darkness--a late-night talk-show host who tackles controversial subjects, from angels to aliens and government agencies so deep in shadow that the puppet strings they use to exercise control are invisible. His radio show is a world of the paranormal and paranoia, where claims of alien abductions, Big Foot sightings, and a mysterious world government are the norm.
Greg's world explodes when government agents accuse him of having received ultra-secret files from Ethan Shaw, a hacker intent on exposing a secret cabal with tentacles throughout the government. Greg knows nothing about the files. When Shaw is killed and the evidence points to Greg, the radio personality goes on the run, stalked by a demented assassin. As he tries to unravel the deadly secrets the hacker uncovered, Greg is helped by Alyssa Neal, a mysterious woman who says Shaw also dragged her into the boiling cauldron of intrigue.
Greg realizes his paranoia is really "heightened awareness" of strange machinations. He seeks help from callers to his show who don't trust the government, have gone "under the radar," or are angry and paranoid about the vast gathering of information and invasions of privacy by government agencies.
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Late-night talk-show host Noory (Talking to the Dead, with Rosemary Ellen Guiley) makes his fiction debut with a tense, paranoia-fueled conspiracy thriller. Ethan Shaw, an anti-surveillance hacker, has discovered evidence of a government cover-up of extensive alien involvement in our world. Soon after appearing on L.A.-based talk-show host Greg Nowell's program devoted to the paranormal, Ethan takes a fatal dive from the window of a high building. When agents from Interagency, a secret government group, visit Greg looking for a file that they think Ethan gave him, Greg flees with Alyssa Neal, who claims to have worked with Ethan at the satellite-controlling National Reconnaissance Office, to try to track down the file before the government finds it or kills them. Snippets of actual articles from such sources as Newsweek and the New York Times about governmental overreach and UFOs lend verisimilitude to the predictable, exposition-heavy story line. Those who buy in to the novel's antitechnology, anti Big Brother worldview will find a lot to like.
