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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 find

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New York City, 1956: Nineteen-year-old Marion is over the moon to have been selected to be one of the Rockettes,... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
    Publication Date: 7/23/2024
    ISBN13: 9780593184066, 978-0593184066
    ISBN10: 0593184068

    Fiction , Historical Fiction

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    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 find

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