Susannah Meadows, NYT reviewer, says Jed Rubenfeld's new book, The Death Instinct is great. She sets the scene in this manner:
" The Death Instinct opens on that September day when Lower Manhattan was blown apart, and Americans started wondering who could hate them so much. The day the word “terrorist” became part of our vocabulary, and the country rallied to war.
The year was 1920.
It was lunchtime. An overloaded horse-drawn cart was parked in front of J. P. Morgan’s bank, jamming traffic. A taxi driver got out of his car, ready to chew out the cart man, but he was nowhere to be found. Then the cabby heard an odd noise. He put his ear to the burlap: ticking. Seconds later dozens of people were dead. To this day the crime remains unsolved."
Jed Rubenfeld's newest book, The Death Instinct,is a sequel to his 2006 novelThe Interpretation of Murder .
Read the entire review atThe New York Times (2/8/11)
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