The Newsmakers by Lis Wiehl

Author:Lis Wiehl
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2015-10-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 45

AS ERICA CABS DOWN TO Beth Israel, she takes out her prepaid and makes the call to Moira.

“Hey, Moira, I was just offered a prime-time show and a three-year contract at three million per.”

Moira hollers so loud that Erica moves the phone away from her ear. “Baby, I am so proud of you.”

“Hey, thanks, and I mean it when I say it wouldn’t have happened without you. You reached down and picked me up when I needed it most. You’re the best friend I’ve ever had.”

“Can you lend me a hundred K?”

“At 15 percent.”

“This calls for a celebration.”

“Let’s hold off until the ink is dry. Listen, can you do me a big favor?”

“Name it.”

“Can you see what you can find out about Fred Wilmot? He’s our chief visionary officer.”

“Sure. Why the interest?”

“There’s something cold and . . . scary about him. What do you make of Yanez’s death?”

“It feels like gang work to me. The stolen rental car MO is popular with Hispanic gangs out here, and they’ve used the desert as a dumping ground before.”

“Why would a gang want to kill him?”

“Follow the money.”

“So you think they were paid?”

“Absolutely. Whoever engineered Barrish’s murder is smart. Very smart. I’m sure they put at least four or five layers between themselves and the crime. Yanez was the first layer, whoever killed him is the second layer. This is going to be a tough onion to peel.”

“There’s no way I’m letting go.”

“Erica, you don’t sound like a woman who has just scored a life-changing triumph.”

“Moira, Hastings and Wilmot want me to stay behind the desk, stop field reporting. I feel like they want to muzzle me, use me almost as a figurehead. They ran focus groups on me without telling me. And there’s something very . . . bizarre about Nylan Hastings. The network has this secretive cyber department. He seems power crazed.”

“Why would they want to muzzle a reporter as talented as you?”

The question hangs there.

“Talk soon,” Erica says as the cab pulls up to the hospital. As she rides up in the elevator, she thinks, Until my show debuts I’m still a field reporter—it may be time for another trip out to LA.

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