This work of fiction makes no secret of its debt to Reynolds Packard’s novel, The Kansas City Milkman, republished many decades ago as Dateline Paris—a study of journalism, love and liquor in a turbulent era of war and mischief.
As the Internet propels the news business into uncharted territory, my book is a tribute to Packard’s—in the parlance of the trade, a nulede with updates.