Fair Warning (Connelly novel)
Fair Warning is a 2020 thriller written by American author Michael Connelly. It is the third novel featuring Jack McEvoy, a Los Angeles investigative reporter for the consumer watchdog news service Fair Warning, as well as former FBI agent Rachel Walling. The novel is a sequel to the events in Connelly's 2009 book The Scarecrow. Themes explored in the book include the decline of investigative journalism and the print-newspaper, the rise of fake news, the misogynistic incel movement, and the dangers of trafficking in DNA sequence data by an industry having no government oversight or regulations.
| Author | Michael Connelly |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack McEvoy, #3 |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Published | 2020 (Little Brown) |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 396 |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-53942-5 |
| Preceded by | The Night Fire |
| Followed by | The Law of Innocence |
McEvoy's employer and its editor Myron Levin are both based on the real-life news service FairWarning with Myron Levin as its editor.[1]
Reception
Barry Forshaw wrote in the Financial Times, "Connelly is an astute commentator on American society, notably the prevalence of fake news filtering from the highest political echelons down to every stratum of society."[2] Critic Marilyn Stasio wrote in The New York Times, "Connelly is in terrific form here, applying genre conventions to the real-life dangers inherent in the commercial marketing of genetics research."[3] Sandra Dallas wrote in the Denver Post that the novel "sheds light on the murky billion-dollar world of DNA testing.... [which has] little in the way of oversight or enforcement. Labs are licensed but essentially operate on their own. All that makes the subject ripe for a good mystery. And Michael Connelly is just the guy to write it."[4]
References
- ""Fair Warning", the Book: Michael Connelly in Conversation with Editor Myron Levin". FairWarning. 22 June 2020.
- Barry Forshaw (1 May 2020). "#MeToo, Nordic nights and badger culls — the best new crime fiction". Financial Times.
- Marilyn Stasio (5 June 2020). "Beautiful Places to Die". The New York Times.
- Sandra Dallas (22 May 2020). "Book review: In "Fair Warning," the lucrative world of DNA testing is fodder for crime". The Denver Post.