Take two hotshot reporters...add a touch of romance and a little healthy competition–then run for cover. In this fast-paced, sharp-witted debut inspired by the author’s real-life adventures, two sparring ace reporters do their best to outrun, outsmart, and outscoop each other. Who knew they’d find love?
Barbara Fischkin was on the fast track to the big leagues of journalism. Then she ran head-on into Jim Mulvaney, a fast-talking blue-eyed Irishman on a track all his own. In Mulvaney’s world there can be only one star. But he wouldn’t mind a little help from an attractive newswoman…. So begins an outrageous love-and-hate affair between a Jewish girl from Brooklyn and an Irish lad from Queens whose barstool connections reach all the way to the IRA. Within months, trading drink for drink, barb for barb, and scoop for scoop, Fischkin and Mulvaney are breaking stories all around the world, uncovering tales of corruption and intrigue from Flatbush to Belfast and beyond–and making news of their own: in a little scandal called marriage...
