![]() ![]() ![]() Tapper pulls a lot of his material from real life, and he says he wanted a way to talk about the rise of tabloid journalism, and how the Murdochs have exploited people’s most base fears for their own financial gain. In All the Demons Are Here, which hits shelves July 11, the now-grown Marder children take center stage in the late ‘70s: Ike is a Marine gone semi-AWOL in order to join up with Evel Knievel’s pit crew after a traumatic incident on the ground of the Lebanese civil war, and Lucy is a young reporter at a tabloid paper run by a Murdoch-like family intent on sensationalizing a string of local murders. Tapper is releasing a third novel in his budding literary empire, which began with 2018’s The Hellfire Club, a political thriller that followed young Congressman Charlie Marder, and his wife, Margaret, after a car accident thrusts them into a conspiracy theory. Poet Cleo Wade's Next Challenge: Write a Love Story He arrived early for the breakfast interview, due in part to the habits of a longtime live news anchor, but also because he’s on East Coast time, rising hours before most of Los Angeles. He’s seated on the patio of The Pendry, a West Hollywood social club meets hotel, drinking the first of several iced coffees, dressed casually - comparatively speaking, for a person whose day job requires suits pressed within an inch of their life - in a breezy button-down shirt and Air Jordans. Today, what’s lured him away from the CNN studio (temporarily) is the promotion of his new book. The news never stops, but for Jake Tapper, it does occasionally share time with other creative pursuits. ![]()
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