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Overview

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 writher 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.

A dynamite thriller filled with all the elements that have made his previous works phenomenal bestsellers, The Sky Is Falling is Sidney Sheldon at his sizzling best.

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Three hundred million copies of his books have been sold. He's won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar. Sidney Sheldon has captured this fame with a self-confidence that borders on brazenness. Who else, for example, would have risked a plot as frontal and daring as that of The Sky is Falling? In this thriller, five members of America's most illustrious family fall victim to accidents' within a single year. Dana Evans, a ravishing young news anchor, surprise surprise, finds this suspicious and begins to investigate. As lame and heavy-handed as it sounds in summary, the story engine works on paper. And that, as Sidney Sheldon knows better than anyone else, is where the action is.

New York Daily News
When you want a novel you simply cannot put down, go to Sheldon.
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Boston Herald
Springs one surprise after another, page after irresistible page.
People Magazine
The master of the bestselling game.
Publishers Weekly
Efficiently brisk and reliably suspenseful, Sheldon's (Tell Me Your Dreams, etc.) 17th novel demonstrates that this veteran master of commercial fiction has not lost his touch. 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. Agent, Mort Janklow. 750,000 first printing; Literary Guild and Doubleday main selections; Mystery Guild featured alternate; People Book Club alternate; 6-city author tour. (Sept.) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.|
Library Journal
This latest novel from Sheldon (The Best Laid Plans) probably won't have much chance of being selected as an Oprah Book Club choice (hers are certainly more thoughtful, character-driven picks), but that won't stop it from being in demand by most library patrons. The book has pretty flimsy character development, a feeble plot line, and an ending that hardly surprises. Yet it works. From the first page, the reader is caught up in the snappy and suspenseful chapters, which become inescapably addictive. Dana Evans is a television reporter with an apparently unlimited travel expense account who finds it peculiar when all five members of a very wealthy and highly regarded family meet untimely and violent deaths. Her investigation soon confirms her suspicions, uncovering not one but three strong motives for murder. Eventually, her search leads her to top-secret Russian and U.S. agencies dealing with the production and sale of nuclear weapons. Needless to say, her probing for the truth doesn't go unnoticed, and soon she is running for her life. The last few chapters neatly resolve all the intrigue, including secondary story lines involving her adopted son; her fianc , Jeff; and a shaky relationship with her mother. A certain purchase for any public library fiction collection. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 5/15/00.]--Margaret Hanes, Sterling Heights P.L., MI Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780446610179
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
  • Publication date: 7/28/2001
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 416
  • Sales rank: 160,744
  • Product dimensions: 4.25 (w) x 6.75 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Meet the Author

Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon remains one of the world's handful of top bestselling authors, having sold more than 250 million books. Best Laid Plans was his most recent in a long line of New York Times bestsellers. He is also the only writer to have won an Oscar, a Tony, and an Edgar, and the latest Guinness Book of Records heralds him as the most translated writer in the world. Mr. Sheldon resides with his wife, Alexandra, in Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and London.

Biography

Best known today for his exciting blockbuster novels, Sidney Sheldon was the author of The Best Laid Plans, Nothing Lasts Forever, The Stars Shine Down, The Doomsday Conspiracy, Memories of Midnight, The Sands of Time, Windmills of the Gods, If Tomorrow Comes, Master of the Game, Rage of Angels, Bloodline, A Stranger in the Mirror, and The Other Side of Midnight. Almost all of them were number-one international bestsellers. His first book, The Naked Face, was acclaimed by the New York Times as "the best first mystery of the year" and received an Edgar Award. Most of his novels became major feature films or TV miniseries, and there are more than 275 million copies of his books in print throughout the world.

Before he became a novelist, Sheldon had already won a Tony Award for Broadway's Redhead and an Academy Award for The Bachelor and the Bobby Soxer. He has written the screenplays for twenty-three motion pictures, including Easter Parade (with Judy Garland) and Annie Get Your Gun. In addition, he penned six other Broadway hits and created three long-running television series, including Hart to Hart and I Dream of Jeannie, which he also produced. A writer who delighted millions with his award-winning plays, movies, novels, and television shows, Sidney Sheldon reigned as one of the most popular storytellers of all time.

Author biography courtesy of Time Warner.

Good To Know

Some interesting outtakes from our interview with Sheldon:

"When I was 17, I was happy to be working in a drugstore, because I could steal enough sleeping pills to commit suicide."

"I have bi-polar syndrome and was not aware what was disturbing me until I received an Academy Award and went to see a psychiatrist."

"I have worked 7 days a week as long as I can remember. A business manager of mine gave me $25 worth of tennis lessons. I went down to my tennis court and we played once a week. I really enjoyed it. Playing with the pro one day, my teacher said to me that the money had been spent and did I want to continue. I started to say yes, then I realized that I didn't want to be out on the tennis court. I wanted to be in my office writing. That was 25 years ago and I haven't been on my tennis court since."

    1. Hometown:
      Los Angeles, California
    1. Date of Birth:
      February 11, 1917
    2. Place of Birth:
      Chicago, Illinois
    1. Date of Death:
      January 30, 2007

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Chapter One

She was hurrying along Pennsylvania Avenue, a block from the White House, shivering in the cold December wind, when she heard the terrifying, earsplitting scream of air-raid sirens and then the sound of a bomber plane overhead, ready to unload its cargo of death. She stopped, frozen, engulfed in a red mist of terror.

Suddenly she was back in Sarajevo, and she could hear the shrill whistle of the bombs dropping. She closed her eyes tightly, but it was impossible to shut out the vision of what was happening all around her. The sky was ablaze, and she was deafened by the sounds of automatic-weapons fire, roaring planes, and the wump of deadly mortar shells. Nearby buildings erupted into showers of cement, bricks, and dust. Terrified people were running in every direction, trying to outrace death.

From far, far away, a man's voice was saying, “Are you all right?”

Slowly, warily, she opened her eyes. She was back on Pennsylvania Avenue, in the bleak winter sunlight, listening to the fading sounds of the jet plane and the ambulance siren that had triggered her memories.

“Miss'are you all right?”

She forced herself back to the present. “Yes. I'm'I'm fine, thank you.”

He was staring at her. “Wait a minute! You're Dana Evans. I'm a big fan of yours. I watch you on WTN every night, and I saw all your broadcasts from Yugoslavia.” His voice was filled with enthusiasm. “It must have been really exciting for you, covering that war, huh?”

“Yes.” Dana Evans's throat was dry. Exciting to see people blown to shreds, to see the bodies of babies thrown down wells, bits of human jetsam flowing down a river ofred.

She suddenly felt sick to her stomach. “Excuse me.” She turned and hurried away.

Dana Evans had returned from Yugoslavia just three months earlier. The memories were still too fresh. It seemed unreal to walk down streets in broad daylight without fear, to hear birds singing and people laughing. There had been no laughter in Sarajevo, only the sounds of exploding mortars and the anguished screams that followed.

John Donne was right, Dana thought. No man is an island. What happens to one, happens to us all, for we are all made of clay and stardust. We share the same moments of time. The universal second hand starts its unforgiving sweep toward the next minute:

In Santiago, a ten-year-old girl is being raped by her grandfather . . .

In New York City, two young lovers are kissing by candlelight . . .

In Flanders, a seventeen-year-old girl is giving birth to a crack baby . . .

In Chicago, a fireman risks his life to save a cat from a burning building . . .

In S&atildeo Paulo, hundreds of fans are trampled to death at a soccer match as the stands collapse . . .

In Pisa, a mother cries with joy as she watches her baby take its first steps . . .

All this and infinitely more in the space of sixty seconds, Dana thought. And then time ticks on until it finally sends us into the same unknown eternity.

Dana Evans, at twenty-seven, was lovely looking, with a slim figure, midnight-black hair, large, intelligent gray eyes, a heart-shaped face, and a warm, contagious laugh. Dana had grown up as an army brat, the daughter of a colonel who traveled from base to base as an armament instructor, and that kind of life had given Dana a taste for adventure. She was vulnerable and at the same time fearless, and the combination was irresistible. During the year that Dana had covered the war in Yugoslavia, people all over the world were spellbound by the beautiful, young, impassioned woman broadcasting in the middle of battle, risking her life to report on the deadly events occurring around her. Now, wherever she went, she was aware of signs and whispers of recognition. Dana Evans was embarrassed by her celebrity.

Hurrying down Pennsylvania Avenue, passing the White House, Dana looked at her watch and thought, I'm going to be late for the meeting.

Washington Tribune Enterprises took up an entire block of Sixth Street NW, with four separate buildings: a newspaper printing plant, newspaper staff offices, an executive tower, and a television broadcasting complex. The Washington Tribune Network television studios occupied the sixth floor of building four. The place was always charged with energy, its cubicles humming with people at work on their computers. Wire copy from half a dozen news services constantly spewed out updated news from around the globe. The immensity of the operation never ceased to amaze and excite Dana.

It was there that Dana had met Jeff Connors. An All-Star pitcher until he injured his arm in a skiing accident, Jeff was now an on-air sports reporter for WTN and also wrote a daily column for the Washington Tribune Syndicate. He was in his thirties, tall and lean, with boyish looks and an easy, laid-back charm that attracted people to him. Jeff and Dana had fallen in love, and they had talked about marriage.

In the three months since Dana had returned from Sarajevo, events in Washington had moved swiftly. Leslie Stewart, the former owner of Washington Tribune Enterprises, had sold out and disappeared, and the corporation had been bought by an international media tycoon, Elliot Cromwell.

The morning meeting with Matt Baker and Elliot Cromwell was about to begin. When Dana arrived, she was greeted by Abbe Lasmann, Matt's sexy redheaded assistant.

“The fellows are waiting for you,” Abbe said.

“Thanks, Abbe.” Dana walked into the corner office. “Matt . . . Elliot . . .”

“You're late,” Matt Baker grumbled.

Baker was a short, gray-haired man in his early fifties, with a gruff, impatient manner fueled by a brilliant, restless mind...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 19, 2000

    Had me up All Night

    Thanks to the internet and my husband I was able to get this wonderful book before it came out in the stores (And I live in the Caribbean). I just got through the book which I received as a birtday gift. It had me up all night so this morning its hard for me to concentrate at work. The book had me guessing the whole time. Its similar to the feeling you get when you figure out a crossword puzzle word. At the end I thought,'Well I did guess part right' Thanks for a wonderful read on my birthday. I wish Barnes and Noble can make it easier for readers outside of the US to get books Hot off the press also.

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  • Posted December 21, 2010

    Love Sidney Sheldon!!

    All I can say is that once I started this book, I could not put it down. Right from the start, it grabs you. I would definitely recommend this book! ...........And, I just love the "Dana" character!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 14, 2007

    Glued to the book!

    This was the first book I ever read by Sheldon. To be honest I only brought it because it was on sale at the library for fifty cents and I needed a new bok to read. I really wasn't sure if I would like it but he is a brillant writer! The plot was engaging and the whole book was suspensfull. I am looking forward to reading more of his work.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 20, 2007

    The Sky Is Falling

    The plot of the book sounded interesting and i couldn't put the book down and hadn't realized how far into it i had gotten into. You have Dana Evans who risks everything including her life and son to solve a mystery behind the slaying of a well respected family that'll take her across the globe.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 24, 2005

    awesome!!

    this one is one of the greatetst works by sidney sheldon. the best part is the way the story line began n where it ends...... its just difficult to judge the killer n the whole conspiracy planned is shakening. anyone who loves reading ........... must go in fo rthis one... happy reading

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 26, 2004

    A lovly suspense page turner

    This book is a very good book it one of the greatest page turners that sidney sheldon has writen so far. Its quite fast pace and there is a lot of action in this book. I would rate this 8 out of 5 stars but i can't.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 11, 2002

    Slow start, but picks up near the end...

    I was a little disappointed with the beginning. It was rather slow and didn't seem to be going anywhere. Just as I was about to give up on it, the plot thickened and I was able to continue to the end, then finding myself unable to put it down. However, I did find a lot of holes in the story - where I found myself thinking, "That would never happen. It's just not realistic enough" which lowered my overall thoughts on the book slightly. It was worth finishing, but I think some things could have been edited and altered slightly.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 13, 2002

    Great Story! Can't put down!

    The plot was great and there were a twists in the book

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 10, 2002

    just the best!!!

    I'm just a 13 yr old girl and we are required to pass a book review for our english subject. my sis told me 2 read this book. at first i was not interested in the story..but guess what!!!Everynight my mother scolded at me because i wont go 2 sleep!!!i kept on reading and reading the book over and over again!!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 1, 2001

    Fast Moving

    Excitement, Travel, Career and Family all in one.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 13, 2001

    FUN TO READ

    Not necessarily up to the usual Sheldon snuff, but fun and exciting. He tries something different when we may be expecting more of the status quo.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 14, 2001

    Another great book by Sheldon

    Sheldon has done it again. This is a great book. Once I picked it up I could not put it down. I would and have recomended it.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 16, 2001

    Disappointing...

    As I'm sure is true for many readers, I was eagerly awaiting another Sidney Sheldon book. It's the best way to escape everyday reality and get lost in about 350 pages of exhilaration. I picked up this one as soon as it came out in paperback. I finished it in a day and was swept up in the fast moving plot, but majorly disappointed... Sidney Sheldon usually delivers twists and turns that baffle. The only thing I was baffled about here was 'how could this be the same author that brought us 'If Tomorrow Comes?' Oh well, guess it's time to find the Millenium's master of suspense...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 3, 2001

    Sidney Sheldon is the best

    As always, Sidney Sheldon comes through. You just can't put his books down. Hopefully Sidney lives to be 200 years old and still writing!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 27, 2001

    Not up to par

    This was definitely not up to Sheldon's usual standards. The book had too many coincidences (like how Dana kept getting interviews with all the people she needed at just the right time and how she spent zero time in the office and all her time out chasing down a theory on company time and expense). Characters were introduced, described and then never seen nor heard from again. And the intensity of this book just never reached a point where I felt really interested in what was going to happen in the end. I didn't become attached to the characters and didn't feel like I knew enough about them to care. An easy read, but not one that kept me up all night.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 15, 2001

    FAST READ

    This book is so good, I could not put it down until I finished it in one day. It reads like a plot for a TV movie. It keeps moving along and is very entertaining.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 10, 2000

    Best Sheldon Book

    This is a very good book that keeps you in suspense throughout the whole book from the very begining till the very end.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2000

    A bit slow in the begining, but exciting non the less

    As a big Sidney Sheldon fan, I got comfortable with reading only the best, even though this book was a bit slow on excitement in the begining, it turn out to be a book only Sidney Sheldon could write. An ending that has you asking the question, Where does come he get these ideas?

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 28, 2000

    Sheldon Comes Up Short

    This is definitly not one of Sheldon's best. I simply could not get into this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 6, 2000

    Sidney, What Happened Here?

    This book was so bland and boring I had to keep checking that the author is Sidney Sheldon. Absolutely no depth to any of the characters and while we are told many times that the Winthrops were America's 'royalty' we are given no insight into their lives at all. I was not able to 'feel' any of the characters in the book. And what was the point of Elliott Cromwell? Quite a few of the characters in the book were introduced and then suddenly you heard of them no more. I was terribly disappointed in this book.

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