Cambridge is sweltering, during an unusually hot summer. To Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, the world consists of one accounting sheet - lost on the left, found on the right - and the two never seem to balance. Jackson has never felt at home in Cambridge, and has[...]

A perceptive examination of the way in which the media shapes every aspect of our lives examines the far-reaching influence of everything from blogs, to the modern world of journalism, to reality TV on our view of media-saturated society and our role within that world. Reprint. 25,000 first printing[...]