Fair Warning (Connelly novel)
First edition | |
| Author | Michael Connelly |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Jack McEvoy, #3 |
| Genre | Crime novel |
| Published | 2020 (Little Brown) |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 396 |
| ISBN | 978-0-316-53942-5 |
| Preceded by | The Night Fire |
| Followed by | The Law of Innocence |
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.
The story is told in first-person narrative from the perspective of McEvoy, however, it occasionally swaps to third-person when following antagonists Marshall Hammond and The Shrike. Two chapters are stylized as news articles.
McEvoy's employer and its editor Myron Levin are both based on the real-life news service FairWarning with Myron Levin as its editor. FairWarning dissolved in February 2021.