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PEOPLE & ARTS Wednesday 4 december 2019
Jeff Lindsay

has entertaining

new thriller

By BRUCE DESILVA
Associated Press
iley Wolfe gets his kicks exe-
cuting spectacular robber-
ies that no one else would
even contemplate. His vic-
tims are always the super-
rich, whom he despises as
"smug, do-nothing, self-lov-
ing leeches."
This anti-hero makes his
debut in "Just Watch Me,"
a supremely entertaining
new thriller by Jeff Lindsay
that promises to be the first This cover image released by Dutton shows "Just Watch Me," by Jeff Lindsay.
of a series. Associated Press
The plot combines the in- This cover image released by
tricacies of caper movies Dutton shows "Just Watch Me," Trump campaign to stop giving
such as "The Thomas Crown by Jeff Lindsay.
Affair" and "To Catch a Associated Press credentials to Bloomberg News
Thief" with the creepy sen-
sibility of the hit TV show to catch Wolfe is to un- By DAVID BAUDER Trump campaign man- The Trump campaign's ac-
"Dexter." The latter is no cover his weakness — one AP Media Writer ager Brad Parscale called tion illustrates the difficult
surprise since the show was that must have its roots in NEW YORK (AP) — President it a troubling decision to position Bloomberg's can-
inspired by Lindsay's eight Wolfe's upbringing. Donald Trump's campaign "formalize preferential re- didacy has imposed on
novels featuring Dexter So Delgado crisscrosses said Monday it will no lon- porting policies." He said the news organization. By
Morgan, a serial killer who the eastern half of the ger give credentials to Bloomberg reporters would saying reporters could not
preyed only upon other United States, digging into Bloomberg News reporters no longer be credentialed investigate Bloomberg or
serial killers. Unlike Dexter, Wolfe's long-buried family to cover campaign events to cover campaign events his Democratic rivals, some
Wolfe takes no pleasure in history. Readers who know because of coverage "bi- until the policy is rescinded. critics have said this would
murder, but he displays no how caper stories usually ases," an accusation that "As President Trump's cam- prevent the news organi-
qualms about dispassion- work will have little doubt the news organization re- paign, we are accustomed zation from doing in-depth
ately dispatching anyone who is going to win this cat- jects. The decision comes to unfair reporting prac- reporting on the cam-
who gets in his way. and-mouse game, but the a week after the news tices, but most news orga- paign. Bloomberg officials
The opening of the story agent's fine detective work service's founder, billion- nizations don't announce say it's a position they've
finds Wolfe taking no sat- succeeds in unearthing aire Michael Bloomberg, their biases so publicly," navigated before when
isfaction from his spec- the influences that turned announced he was seek- Parscale said. Bloomberg he was mayor. Journalists
tacular heist of a 12-ton Wolfe into the man he has ing the Democratic nomi- Editor-in-Chief John Mickle- at Bloomberg would have
sculpture, swiped in broad become. nation for president. And thwait said the accusation been better served if he
daylight at its dedication "Just Watch Me," then, is Bloomberg News, which of bias couldn't be further had made clear that he
ceremony. For him, the both an exciting crime sto- the former New York City from the truth. "We have was stepping away from
spectacular has become ry and a revealing explora- mayor founded in 1990, covered Donald Trump fair- his company for the cam-
ordinary, and it bores him. tion of the psychology of a said it would not investi- ly and in an unbiased way paign and said that he
He craves a caper that is master criminal. The writing gate him or his Democratic since he became a candi- — and any candidate for
"beyond impossible, some- is tight and vivid, the char- rivals but would continue date in 2015 and will con- president — was fair game
thing ridiculous, unthink- acters are convincingly to probe the Trump admin- tinue to do so despite the for any kind of stories that
able." portrayed and the action istration, as the sitting gov- restrictions imposed by the Bloomberg News reporters
He finds it when the gov- is nonstop.q ernment. Trump campaign," he said. could dig up, she said.q
ernment in Tehran, hoping
to thaw its relations with
the United States, lends Drake is Spotify’s most-streamed artist of the decade
the Iranian crown jewels to
a New York City museum. By The Associated Press the most-streamed song of
There, the multi-billion-dol- NEW YORK (AP) — Drake is the decade.
lar treasure is guarded by the king of streaming: the For 2019, Post Malone is the
the latest in high-tech se- rapper has been named top-streamed artist glob-
curity systems and by both Spotify's most-streamed ally. Billie Eilish, Grande,
American-trained merce- artist of the decade. Sheeran and Bad Bunny
naries and a "trigger-hap- Spotify announced Tues- round out the Top 5. Eilish's
py" contingent of Iranian day that Drake has been debut album — "When We
Revolutionary Guards. streamed 28 billion times All Fall Asleep, Where Do
Meanwhile, Wolfe is being in the last 10 years. Ed We Go?" — is the year's
tracked by Frank Delgado, Sheeran came in second, most-streamed album,
a clever FBI agent who has while Post Malone, Ari- while Shawn Mendes and
been after him for years, ana Grande and Eminem Camila Cabello's "Senori-
always a step or two be- round out the Top 5. Sheer- ta" tops the list of the most- In this Oct. 8, 2016 file photo, Drake performs onstage in
Toronto.
hind. Now, the agent has an's "Shape of You" was streamed songs.q Associated Press
decided that the only way