Davis Fiona - The Spectacular A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: New York City 1956: Nineteen - year - old Marion is over the moon to have been selected to be one of the Rockettes Radio City Music Hall's glamorous precision dancing troupe. It's an honour to perform in the world's most spectacular theatre an art deco masterpiece. But with four shows a day as well as grueling rehearsals not to mention exacting standards of perfection to live up to Marion quickly realises that the life of a Rockette has both extraordinary highs and devastating lows. Then one night a bomb explodes in the theater. It's only the latest in a string of explosions around the city orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the Big Apple Bomber who has been terrorizing the citizens of New York for sixteen years by planting bombs in popular crowded spaces. With the public in an uproar over the lack of any real leads after a decades - long manhunt the police at Marion's urging turn in desperation to a radical new technique: psychological profiling. As Marion finds herself pulled deeper into the investigation she realises that as much as she's been training herself to blend in - performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes - if she hopes to catch the bomber she'll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so she may be forced to sacrifice everything she's worked for as well as the people she loves the most.
Title: The Spectacular A Novel
Author(s): Davis Fiona
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Barcode: 9780593184066
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 7/23/2024
Category: Historical Fiction