Eli
Chapter One
Monday was an inconvenient time to die. Come to think of it,
Tuesday through Sunday weren't all that agreeable either.
Conrad Davis had too many important things to do. Too many
fires to put out. Too many producers to plead with, cajole,
and, if necessary, circumvent.
Not interesting? Too cerebral? What were they talking
about? Did they honestly think TV audiences were that
stupid?
"Give us another multibirth story," they'd said. "Those
McCaughey septuplets, don't they have a birthday coming
up? Or how about another psychic piece-some mother visited
by her dead daughter; those always work."
"Guys ..." Conrad glanced around the table in the smoke-filled
war room. He could already feel the back of his neck
beginning to tighten. "We're talking about a major scientific
breakthrough here."
But the other producers of the prime time news magazine,
Up Front, continued without hearing. "Or how 'bout another
cripple story," suggested Peggy Martin, one of the few females
on staff. "Some guy in a wheelchair climbing Mount Everest
or something."
"Guys ..."
"We did that ... read full excerpt from: Eli ebook
