Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.3
Points
17.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
112719
Points per Word
0.000151
Page Count
419
Points per Page
0.040573
Description
Forced out of work amid the latest budget cuts, newspaperman Jack McEvoy decides to use his final days at the paper to uncover the definitive murder story of his career. The plot contains profanity, sexual situations and perversion and violence.