The technology of journalism changes almost as rapidly, providing new ways to get more information and to deliver it faster. And journalism schools are producing a generation of news professionals who will look far different from their predecessors. Their diversity will enrich news coverage. All these changes have ethical components. In some instances, solid ethical standards are improving the quality of journalism and making it even more significant to the people who rely on it.
Ethics does matter.
This book, we hope, will explain some of the reasons why. On the night of the vernal equinox in 1930, the novel's protagonist, Wilbur Smythe, puts in motion his plan to avenge the deaths of his wife and his employer, a wealthy Kiowa, both murdered by a banker greedy for the Kiowa's oil money. Hunter's Trap further explores the clash of values and cultures that formed the core of Smith's earlier novel based on historical events, Buffalo Nickel . Having dropped out of graduate school after a squabble with his fellowship sponsors, he is foreman of the range of his childhood. Paired against Mendez in this striking first novel is his cousin, Manuelo-practically illiterate, broke, the father of six starving children, and unable to find work.