Above-average thriller about a young woman whose family is killed
in a terrorist attack on a commercial airliner. Consumed by guilt
and loneliness, she abandons a promising future for a drug-fuelled
decline into prostitution. When she encounters an investigative
journalist on the trail of the Arab bombers who scuppered her
family's plane she becomes entangled in a murderous web of
espionage and international terrorism. There is a psychological
novel at the centre of this complex tale which tackles issues like
the nature of revenge and the redeeming power of love. An absorbing
novel and not one to be read on a plane. (Kirkus UK)
The debut of an extraordinary new author -- a novel of how a woman,
pushed over the edge by the violent deaths of her family, survives
only by taking other identities. Stephanie Patrick's world was
destroyed by the Atlantic aircrash. Falling into a downward spiral
of prostitution, drugs and drink, she is picked up by a journalist
who has discovered that it was a bomb that caused the crash. And it
is his murder that pulls her out of herself. The Rhythm Section is
not a thriller about the hunt for a terrorist, although that is the
path Stephanie takes, and it's not a story about revenge, although
justice for her family is her initial motivation. Rather, The
Rhythm Section is the story of Stephanie's attempt to reclaim
herself. She has to rediscover who she is through a series of roles
that she is forced to play; she is never herself. As a prostitute,
she is Lisa, the chemical blonde. Later, she is Petra Reuter,
German anarchist turned mercenary terrorist. Sometimes, she is
Marina Gaudenzi, a Swiss businesswoman, or she's Susan Branch, an
American student, or Elizabeth Shepherd, an English management
consultant. But whoever she is, she's never herself because her
life depends on her b
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