The Tenth Caller - Paperback

by Michael Bronte (Author)

He'd been up there with the biggest, shock-jock extraordinaire, on the biggest stations, in syndication in every major market in the country. Now blackballed and forgotten, Gulliver McKnight is doomed to doing the graveyard shift on godforsaken AM at a 5,000-watt piss-ant station in Andersonville, Indiana, home to a million cold crows, where the highest rated program is the tornado report. At night and under the right atmospheric conditions, however, the "mega-signal of the Midwest" can be heard for a thousand miles, and in the wee hours between midnight and six a.m., the lonely, the depressed, and the depraved gather on the broadcast doorstep of Gulliver McKnight to confide in his wisdom. Some call it a cult following. Others call it a radio freak parade. At 3:16 a.m. Gulliver takes the tenth call, but the caller isn't interested in the chicken dinner Gulliver is giving away. He's into murder, and the killings go way back. The challenge is to stop this serial killer who's found that calling in to Gulliver's show is an interesting new way to get his jollies. The killer calls repeatedly and the question becomes: who is he, and how is he always the tenth call?

Author Biography

Michael Bronte is a graduate of Union College in Schenectady, New York, and George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and lives with his wife of 35 years in Gaithersburg, Maryland. "All of the heroes in my novels are everyday people," says Bronte. "Any of them could by your next door neighbor. None of us really know what we're capable of until the time comes for us to reach beyond the boundaries of our everyday lives. Remarkable feats of courage are performed everyday, by everyday people. It's amazing."