Black River

Black River Journal
Quote 1
““This is Sunny Kerrigan, King five news, reporting live from the first day of Nicholas Balagula trial, where reclusive author Frank Corso…”””
G.M. Ford, Black River, p.21-22
Explanation 1
It introduces our character Frank Corso. It shows in this our protagonist is a well known criminal author and media follows him everywhere. This quote is important because it shows information about the character that will be play a crucial role in the novel.

Quote 2
“Renee Rogers flicked her eyes toward the stairs just in time to see Corso mount the last three steps to the mezzanine. HE was even better looking in person, than he was on TV, she decide: six-three or four, somewhere in the vicinity of forty, wearing a black silk shirt and jeans under what must have been a three-thousand dollar cashmere coat. A man of extremes, she thought, as he strode across the marble floor in her direction. Probably what going in so much tr...