FAKE

When popular First Lady Rose Gannon dies suddenly (and mysteriously) during an interview with White House correspondent Lark Chadwick, Lark is thrust into the midst of a media-bashing frenzy. Lark, still reeling from the death of her photographer boyfriend, finds herself covering a grieving president struggling with his pain while trying to defuse a looming nuclear war. In the era of “fake news,” when all “facts” are suspect (and reporters are targets), Lark tries to discover the truth while also under personal attack. FAKE is author John DeDakis’s most important and perhaps most controversial book to date. In FAKE, DeDakis, a former White House correspondent, and former CNN Senior Copy Editor, offers a real-life look behind-the-scenes at the ethical struggles of a female journalist in a #MeToo world. Protagonist Lark Chadwick is a strong-willed, strong-minded twenty-something trying to walk the line between personal feelings and dispassionate objectivity – trying to discern the difference between what’s real . . . and what’s fake. Each book in the Lark Chadwick Mystery Series features a young woman searching for purpose in life who finds it as a journalist. The novels deal redemptively with issues of suicide, journalistic integrity, anonymous sources, mentoring relationships, presidential politics, and various public policy issues. In Fake, Lark, as a White House correspondent, investigates the sudden death of the First Lady as Lark, herself, is the victim of “fake news.” FAKE is a gripping behind-the-scenes look at how deadline-a-minute journalism unfolds when White House Correspondent Lark Chadwick is accused of having an affair with the President of the United States and murdering his wife.