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Deadline (1997)

by John Dunning

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Edgar Award Finalist: During his first day at a new job, a veteran journalist is drawn into a strange closed society.   After years of churning out copy as a newspaper reporter, Dalton Walker still can't resist a fire. When a circus tent goes up in smoke, seventeen are killed, and one body in particular draws his attention: a little girl, charred beyond recognition. The adult that brought her there must have survived, but no one comes forward to claim the body. Why? It is a strange case, and the more Walker digs, the stranger it becomes.   At the same time, his new editor hands him a fluff piece--a profile of something New York City has never seen before: an Amish Rockette. As Walker investigates how a girl who was taught that dancing is a sin could have found her way to Radio City Music Hall, he begins to suspect that her apparent fear of reporters is more than just shyness. Danger surrounds the dancer, who is learning that life on the kickline can be just as perilous as a circus-tent fire.    … (more)
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This is a re-issue of one of Dunning's earliest novels and I think it's even better than his Janeway stuff (and I LOVE his Janeway stuff). It's a great story that weaves an Amish bred Radio City Music Hall Rockette in with the tale of a circus fire that left an 8 year old girl dead and never claimed by anyone. Dunning does a fabulous and credible job of telling this really interesting story. ( )
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Edgar Award Finalist: During his first day at a new job, a veteran journalist is drawn into a strange closed society.   After years of churning out copy as a newspaper reporter, Dalton Walker still can't resist a fire. When a circus tent goes up in smoke, seventeen are killed, and one body in particular draws his attention: a little girl, charred beyond recognition. The adult that brought her there must have survived, but no one comes forward to claim the body. Why? It is a strange case, and the more Walker digs, the stranger it becomes.   At the same time, his new editor hands him a fluff piece--a profile of something New York City has never seen before: an Amish Rockette. As Walker investigates how a girl who was taught that dancing is a sin could have found her way to Radio City Music Hall, he begins to suspect that her apparent fear of reporters is more than just shyness. Danger surrounds the dancer, who is learning that life on the kickline can be just as perilous as a circus-tent fire.    

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New York "Tribune" reporter Dalton Walker is juggling two stories. The first concerns a circus tent fire that claimed the life of a little girl. The second story seems a bit fluffier - an Amish woman has left her traditional community to make it big as a dancer in New York. Newspaper life can be tough, maybe even terrifying, with two deadlines hanging over your head.
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