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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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