The author of such classics as Tell Me Your Dreams and The Other Side of Midnight,
Sidney Sheldon has sold more than 300 million copies of his books in 51
languages. The only writer to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar
award, he is—according to the Guinness Book of
World Records—the
most translated author in the world. Now this incomparable storyteller
is back with another dazzling blockbuster guaranteed to enthrall fans
everywhere.When five
members of America's most illustrious
family are all killed in separate accidents in less than a
year, Dana Evans, a
beautiful
young anchorwoman for a Washington, D.C., television network,
becomes suspicious. Investigating the deaths, the determined journalist
uncovers a trail of blood that takes her to half a dozen countries
around the world in search of a killer. In a startling turn of events,
Dana becomes the hunted, and the terrible secret she's learned puts her
and her young son into dire jeopardy from which they may not be able to
escape…A dynamite thriller filled with the trademark elements that have made his previous works phenomenal bestsellers, The Sky Is Falling is Sidney Sheldon at his sizzling best.If America had a
royal family, the Taylor Winthrops would wear the crown. The popular,
charismatic Winthrops have captured the imagination of the world with
their public service, their enormous charity, and their glamorous
lives. But in the period of one year, all five members of the are
killed in a series of accidents. Beautiful young anchorwoman Dana Evans
begines an investigation and stares unraveling compelling evidence that
she can hardly believe. In her determined pursuit of the truth,
Dana never anticipated the cat and mouse chase that leads her through
half a dozen countries in surch of a remorseless killer. As she closes
in on her suspect, the shocking secrets she uncovers Dana and her young
son in dire jeopardy. Can Dana outwit her pursuers and expose the truth
that will astound the world?Freshly returned to Washington, D.C., from a stint reporting in
Sarajevo, TV newscaster Dana Evans (introduced in Sheldon's The Best
Laid Plans) struggles to cope with her new adopted son, troubled
12-year-old Kemal, whose parents and sister were killed in the
fighting. Back on the job, Dana interviews youngish millionaire Gary
Winthrop, the scion of a Kennedyesque clan, only to learn the next day
that the prospective Senate candidate and philanthropist has been
murdered in his Washington townhouse. Unbelievably, Dana is the only
person who finds it odd that five members of the Winthrop family have
died violent deaths in the last year. Despite this weakness in the
plot, Sheldon crafts a page-turner that takes Dana on a worldwide quest
from France, Germany and Italy to Alaska and Moscow as she pursues her
hunch that all the Winthrop deaths are related. Deceased family
patriarch Taylor Winthrop, she discovers, was a manipulative,
unscrupulous businessman, politico and womanizer with many enemies. And
the senior Winthrop's connection to the real-life Siberian underground
city of Krasnoyarsk-26 and its production of plutonium proves the
source of the family's wealth and their ill fortune. A love triangle
involving Dana, sports anchor Jeff Connors and his ex-wife,
internationally known model Rachel Stevens, seems gratuitous, tossed in
merely to add plot texture, but it does provide some viable moments of
romance and schmaltz. When the villains behind the killings turn
against Dana as she comes closer to the truth, the tension builds and
holds right through to a seven-alarm finale.