The Sky Is Falling is a spellbinding novel of glamour, power, and murder. The title suggests chaos and mayhem. From the beginning, there is a secret auction going on, which suggests something illegal, giving reader’s room for imaginations and speculations. Is it drugs, human trafficking, or something worse?
The popular, charismatic Winthrops have captured the imagination of the world with their commendable public service, their enormous charity, and their glamorous lives. But in a single year, all five members of the family are killed in a series of accidents. Dana Evans, a beautiful, young anchorwoman with a Washington D.C., TV network, who has just come back from covering the war in Sarajevo, finds the deaths of all family members suspicious, not coincidental.
She begins an investigation and starts discovering compelling evidence that she can hardly believe. In her determined pursuit of the truth, Dana never anticipates the cat-and-mouse chase that leads her through a half-dozen countries in search of a serial killer. During her search, she is accused more than once of being ‘chicken little’ (That is probably where the book takes its title). She keeps chasing a story no one else believes, until the evidence is uncovered.
As she closes in on her suspect, the shocking secrets she unearths place Dana and her young son in dire jeopardy, and, in an unpredicted twist of events, Dana becomes the hunted. Can Dana outsmart her pursuers, and expose the truth that will shock the world?
This is a book that highlights a myriad of societal problems in one breath-taking fiction. Although the book is fiction, there are some elements of reality. For example, as the search for the truth takes Dana across the U.S. and Europe, the glamorous places she visits are real, and they add a touch of reality to the book. The use of suspense is gripping and eye-popping. The fact that she travels across the world to as far as Siberia looking for a killer while the culprit is right under her nose is ironical, and makes the plot as interesting as ever.
I love how her boss tells her that she runs in like Chicken Little yelling “The sky is falling, the sky is falling.” Once the murder conspiracy starts, I have a hard time dropping the book; my eyes literally pop out of their sockets, and I am glued to my seat waiting to see what happens next.
Readers should buckle up and prepare for the amazing journey through the twists and turns of the plot that is Sidney Sheldon's trademark; a mind-blowing explosion of thriller, action, and adventure, filled with all the features that have made his previous works sensational bestsellers, The Sky Is Falling is Sidney Sheldon at his best, and I would award it a 4-point rating out of 5.
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