The Spectacular: A Novel (Large Print)

Paperback

Main Details

Title The Spectacular: A Novel (Large Print)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Fiona Davis
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback
Pages:496
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 156
Category/GenreLarge Print
Trade Publishers Large Print
All Dates
ISBN/Barcode 9780593743843
Audience
General
Edition Large Print Edition

Publishing Details

Publisher Trade Publishers Large Print
Imprint Random House Large Print
NZ Release Date 1 June 2023
Publication Country United States

Description

New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis transports us back to 1950s Manhattan and glamorous Radio City Music Hall in her thrilling new novel about a talented young Rockette and a mysterious bomber terrorizing New York City. New York City 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion Brooks knows she should be happy. Her high school sweetheart is about to propose and sweep her off to the life everyone has always expected theyd have together: a quiet house in the suburbs Marion staying home to raise their future children. But instead Marion finds herself feeling trapped. So when she comes across an opportunity to audition for the famous Radio City Rockettes-the glamorous precision-dancing troupe-she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer. Meanwhile the city is reeling from a string of bombings 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 yearslong manhunt the police turn in desperation to Peter Griggs a young doctor at a local mental hospital who espouses a radical new technique: psychological profiling. As both Marion and Peter find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the bomber Marion realizes that as much as shes been training herself to blend in-performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes-if she hopes to catch the bomber shell need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so she may be forced to sacrifice everything shes worked for as well as the people she loves the most.