Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (novel) Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to "Big Brother", rocket when a housemate is murdered. Unlike a typical whodunnit, Elton does not reveal the identity of the victim until around halfway into the book. The novel is about a murder that occurs on a reality television programme called "House Arrest", which is very similar to the program Big Brother, and the efforts of three police officers to identify the killer by watching all the video recordings of the ten housemates while the remaining
Dead Heat (Rosenberg novel) Dead Heat (Rosenberg novel) Dead Heat is a novel written by Joel C. Rosenberg in 2008. The novel is the fifth and final book in his "Last Jihad" book series. The year is 2016. In Yemen, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covert military strike against one of the head members of the Italy-based terrorist cell “The Legion” succeeds, and the strike team manages to obtain a laptop which bears blueprints for the Staples Center in Los Angeles which is currently hosting the Republican National Convention. President James MacPherson is scheduled to deliver a speech at the convention later that