Episode 720: Fiona Davis - The Spectacular

Published: July 15, 2023, 5:33 p.m.

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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 they\\u2019d 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\\u2014the glamorous precision-dancing troupe\\u2014she jumps at the chance to exchange her predictable future for the dazzling life of a performer.\\xa0
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Meanwhile, the city is reeling from a string of bombings orchestrated by a person the press has nicknamed the \\u201cBig Apple Bomber,\\u201d 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.\\xa0

As both Marion and Peter find themselves unexpectedly pulled in to the police search for the bomber, Marion realizes that as much as she\\u2019s been training herself to blend in\\u2014performing in perfect unison with all the other identical Rockettes\\u2014if she hopes to catch the bomber, she\\u2019ll need to stand out and take a terrifying risk. In doing so, she may be forced to sacrifice everything she\\u2019s worked for, as well as the people she loves the most.
About the Author

Fiona Davis is the New York Times bestselling author of several novels, including The Dollhouse, The Address, The Masterpiece, The Chelsea Girls, The Lions of Fifth Avenue, and The Magnolia Palace. She lives in New York City and is a graduate of the Columbia Journalism School.

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