"Bombshell" is a feminist nuclear thriller set twenty-five years
after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, in which an alienated young
Russian woman born in its shadow undertakes a road trip across the
U.S., waging a guerrilla war against the nuclear industry and
leaving in her wake a trail of destruction and assassinations.
Obsessed with would-be Warhol assassin Valerie Solanas, Varyushka
Cash recreates her atomic past through escalating violence and her
one true goal: an assault on the Indian Point nuclear plant on the
bank of the Hudson River. All along she is relentlessly pursued by
the CIA, eager to capture Varyushka on charges of domestic
terrorism. The cat-and-mouse chase leads to a final showdown in a
decimated and irradiated New York, there on the cusp of a
frightening new future. The initial draft of "Bombshell" was
completed five months before the Fukushima catastrophe, written
from the author's morbid suspicion that the twenty-fifth
anniversary of catastrophe at Chernobyl, Pripyat, and beyond would
be marked by an echo in the present, shadowed by the real threat
present in our unguarded and deteriorating nuclear facilities.
Bombshell is a combustible and commercial step forward by one of
our most creative and intellectual writers today.
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