![]() Mac believes he has just uncovered a story that will be the crowning achievement of his career. An intoxicated Merrill "Mac" McDaniels of the morning Capitol-Press arrives from a long drinking session with Speaker of the House Bruce Ulrich. Reporter John Cotton of the afternoon Tribune newspaper is in the state capitol building's press room filing his column on the day's political events. ![]() ![]() Set in 1971, in the fictitious Capitol City, the story is interwoven with political machinations. ‘the fly on the wall,’ seeing all, feeling nothing, utterly detached, utterly objective. The title of this novel is derived from American journalist Walter Lippmann 's metaphor about newspaper reporters, ". ![]() The story features journalist John Cotton and is set in the unnamed capital city of an unnamed Midwestern state. The Fly on the Wall is a 1971 political crime novel by Tony Hillerman. ![]()
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