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The Spike
The Spike
Author: Arnaud De Borchgrave, Robert Moss
The Spike is a newspaper term for killing a story. That's the meaning of the title. Written in 1980, it's about Robert Hockney. It begins in 1968, where Hockney, a journalism major at Berkley, participates in the antiwar movement. The war at the beginning and throughout the first half of the book being the Vietnam War. He's sent to S...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780380542703
ISBN-10: 0380542706
Publication Date: 5/1981
Pages: 458
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Publisher: Avon Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Jammed against the big bell tower by the press of students around him in the middle of Sproul Plaza, Bob Hockney stared up into the belly of the helicopter that had blacked out the sun. It looked like a fat blow about to settle on their heads.
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A book of international intrigue unveiling the KGB's sinister Directorate A. A plot to turn the Western media into an unwitting Communist pawn in the Soviet drive for global supremacy.


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