Dangerous Games by Danielle Steel EPUB & PDF – eBook Details
- Author: Danielle Steel
- Genre: Women’s Sagas, Mothers & Children Fiction, Women’s Detective Fiction
- Publish Date: 7 March 2017
- Size: 2 MB
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Status: Avail for Download
- Price: Free
It was nearly four in the morning when Alix Phillips ran
for cover as gunshots rang out. A fruit-canning factory
had been shut down in Alabama, putting thousands out
of jobs. The union had been trying to stop the shutdown
for months, and finally violence had broken out in the
town, out of desperation and frustration. Most of the
factory workers were African American, some of whose
families had worked there for generations. There had
been looting and destruction in the town and
surrounding area all night, and two young men had been
killed. The riot police had been called in from nearby
cities, and the acrid smell of tear gas was everywhere.
Alix was reporting from a live feed, and had to abandon
the spot where she’d been standing, as Ben Chapman,
her cameraman, grabbed her roughly by the arm and
forced her to leave. He nearly had to drag her to get her
away from the scene, as troops narrowed in on the area,
and flames exploded the windows as looters set a
building on fire. She had just been saying on her
broadcast for national TV that nothing like it had been
seen since the riots in L.A. in 1992.
“Are you fucking crazy?” Chapman shouted at her, as
they took refuge behind a building around the corner,
and National Guardsmen and riot police thundered past
them. Ben and Alix were wearing their press badges
around their necks and had been on the scene all week.
Alix’s face was smudged with soot, and her eyes were
watering from the tear gas heavy in the air. “Are you
trying to get killed?” They had been working as a team
for four years, and got along well, except in moments like
this.
To her own detriment, Alix Phillips would put herself
on the front line of any battle, riot, demonstration, or
dangerous situation in order to bring the reality of it to
their viewers. Ben loved working with her, but they’d
argued about it before.
Her fearlessness made for awardwinning footage, and the network loved it, especially at a
time in broadcasting when few reporters were willing to
take the risks she did. It was in her DNA. But there were
times when reason had to win out, or should have, and
with Alix it never did. Once she was in the heat of a story,
she was blind to all else. She’d been a TV news reporter
since she graduated from college seventeen years before,
and at thirty-nine had made a powerful reputation for
herself, reporting from every hot spot on the planet.
She
covered the news abroad and in the States, on special
assignment, and the producers loved her because she
never turned anything down, and her brilliant editorials
and assessments were known around the world. She was
a legendary reporter whom everyone admired, and was a
household name. Working with her was a privilege Ben
enjoyed, except when she went too far and put their lives
on the line. He was a brave man, but not foolish. But
nothing stopped Alix, she was passionate about every
story.
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