What
people are saying about
Mike Walker's "MALICIOUS INTENT: A HOLLYWOOD FABLE"
"It's
okay to admit you've got an enquiring mind, chums. Gossip,
after all, is just another word for news in a slinky red dress.
And when people say, as they often do, that gossip is for
ignoble minds, tell them this: There are only two kinds
of gossips-those who admit it, and those who don't."
--THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN
"Mike Walker is the Hemingway of gossip."
--HOWARD STERN
"I always assume Mike Walker has probably scooped anything
I write. He surprises everybody by arriving without horns
and a tail. He's amazingly rational, down-to-earth, intelligent,
and 'with-it.'"
--LIZ SMITH
"Malicious Intent is a gossipy saga about a sexy actress,
told with a great deal of inside savvy by the king of gossip...
from small but enterprising Bancroft Press in Baltimore."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"After reading the galleys, let me just say that Mike
Walker's sizzling "Malicious Intent: A Hollywood Fable"
makes Jackie Collins read like the Bible."
--JILL JACKSON, OF KING FEATURES' "JILL JACKSON'S
HOLLYWOOD"
"Since 1970, Walker's been the king of American gossip
journalism. His revelations about the stars are routinely
stolen by British tabloid papers."
--MARIE WOOLF, SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWS SERVICE
"If anyone has benefited from the growing cachet of
the Enquirer, it is Mike Walker, the paper's longtime gossip
columnist. And Walker, a pugnacious defender of his tabloid
craft, is finally getting a little respectWhat others just
play it, he consummates. He is the voice of gossip: unvarnished,
unapologetic, seductive."
--ANDREA SACHS, COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW
"An over-the-top, tabloid-style thriller littered with
real-life Hollywood references and thinly veiled fantasy sequences
featuring recognizable charactersThe sleaze factor is high,
the plot convoluted, but Walker knows his material (and his
audience) as well as anyone."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Walker, gossip columnist for the National Enquirer,
knows that a big dish of a tabloid, vice-ridden novel -- the
bloodier the better -- won't kill youMalicious Intent has
full tabloidal snap."
--KIRKUS REVIEWS
"Hollywood at its most vicious in this intense novel
about ambition, greed, and revenge Clearly profiling the new
breed of female star -- tough and business-minded, prone to
outrageous behavior, outspoken, and independent.
A scathing
portrait of greedy, malicious reporters, directors, and agents."
--BOOKLIST
"Walker is...regularly described as a journalistic legend."
--THE INDEPENDENT (LONDON), JANE ROBINS
"There is only one 'Guru of Gossip,' and that's Mike
Walker. He's the Dean of celebrity news and a first-rate TV
personality."
--GERALDO RIVERA
"The last remaining larger-than-life figure in American
tabloid journalism."
--JEFFREY TOOBIN, THE NEW YORKER
"Mike Walker - the National Enquirer Legend."
--LOS ANGELES TIMES
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