THE DEATH INSTINCT

Who can forget the September terrorist bombing of the New York financial district? Yes, 1920 was quite a year. Rubenfeld's novel revisits that other bombing of Wall Street, linked to Italian terrorists, which casts innumerable allusions to that eerily similar New York bombing on September 11, 81 years later. Narrator Kerry Shale is the perfect choice to deliver this complicated story. His varied repertoire of voices weaves a love story that involves seedy national politics, scientific breakthroughs, and WWI. Shale perfectly creates the many varied characters that bring this novel to life. The bombing is a turning point in the lives of three characters, who include Sigmund Freud and Madame Curie. M.S. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2012]