Desperate Measures - David Morrell

Obituary writer Matt Pittman has reached the end of the line. Once a hot-shot investigative reporter with a loving wife and son, now he faces the future alone. Sitting in his bathtub with a pistol in his mouth Matt prepares to end his life. But, as his finger tightens on the trigger, the phone rings.

On the line is a friend Matt can't refuse, his boss at the paper who needs one last task completed. So Matt postpones his death and finds himself on the wrong 'end of a man-hunt, wanted by the police and hounded by hitmen determined to silence him forever. AS the killers close in, Matt is still determined to die but he's damned f someone else is going to pull the trigger...