The Almighty A Novel Irving Wallace by Irving Wallace 9780385183895, 0385183895 instant download after payment.

A stunning novel about a man so obsessed with power that he is driven to terrorizing, terrifying manipulation of people, news headlines and world events.

Edward Armstead, son of the richest and most influential media king since William Randolph Hearst, has two great obsessions: his father's mistress Kim Nesbit and the flagship newspaper of the Armstead empire, the New York Record. On his father's death, Armstead 'inherits' both Kim and the Record, but there are strings attached. He accidentally but quickly learns that the one infallible way to untie the knot and keep on top of the newspaper business is to manufacture exclusive news. Fired by his astounding successes and driven by an ever-growing lust for power and possession. Armstead throws all ethical considerations to the wind. Dubbed 'the Almighty' by Time magazine, he secretly organizes his own London terrorist gang to kidnap world leaders...

But Victoria Weston and Nick Ramsay, two investigative journalists on the Record, are dismayed to find themselves repeatedly upstaged by the mysterious 'Mark Bradshaw', a Record reporter who is always first with the big stories. Determined to get to the bottom of 'Bradshaw', Victoria has a series of harrowing brushes with death before the frightening truth dawns. Is it too late to stop Armstead staging his final coup de grâce, his story to end all stories...?

Breathlessly readable, The Almighty is a book about supreme and terrifying power - the power to manipulate people, events, history. Deeply sceptical of the motives of the press, Irving Wallace is convinced that The Almighty not only could happen but will happen.

And it's about two women who begin to suspect the deadly game the man known as "The Almighty" is playing.

Irving Wallace was an American bestselling author and screenwriter. His extensively researched books included such page-turners as The Chapman Report (1960), about human sexuality; The Prize (1962), a fictional behind-the-scenes account of the Nobel Prizes; The Man, about a black man becoming president of the U.S. in the 1960s; and The Word (1972), about the discovery of a new gospel.
Wallace was born in Chicago, Illinois. Wallace grew up in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was the father of Olympic historian David Wallechinsky and author Amy Wallace.
Wallace began selling stories to magazines when he was a teenager. In World War II Wallace served in the Frank Capra unit in Fort Fox along with Theodor Seuss Geisel - more popularly known as Dr Seuss - and continued to write for magazines. He also served in the First Motion Picture Unit of the Army Air Force. In the years immediately following World war II Wallace became a Hollywood screenwriter. He collaborated on such films as The West Point Story (1950), Split Second (1953),and Meet Me at the Fair (1953).
After several years in Hollywood, he devoted himself full-time to writing books. Wallace published 33 books during his lifetime.