The 30-minute finale is a immersive, transporting and even physical (as evidenced by my sweaty palms) experience that's one-of-a-kind. Seeking information from the local community, Decker and Jamison observe the local town of London, North Dakota, which sits at the very heart of the fracking industry. This site has an archive of more than one thousand seven hundred interviews, or eight thousand book recommendations. She appears to have had a post-mortem performed on her reminiscent of those only seen on TV shows – but this time, there was no slab, morgue or camera in sight. This certainly takes away the potential emotional and cinematic impact longer, narration-free scenes would've had on audiences but it served the purpose of moving the story forward swiftly.

To complicate matters further, there is an ‘Eye In The Sky’ facility of the DoD, which looms over the town and has its own share of secrets to hide. The Great Feat Of Philippe Petit, CBS Evening News: Talking With The Man Who Walked The Twin Towers". Not long thereafter - with the group in New York - Phillipe has to pull a press conference ruse to get that same distance information. On Thursday, 29 August, he performed on a high-wire walk in the park above Belvedere Lake (now known as Turtle Pond). Philippe Petit ( French pronunciation: [filip pəti]; born 13 August 1949) is a French high-wire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized high-wire walks between the towers of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris in 1971 and of Sydney Harbour Bridge in 1973, as well as between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City on the morning of 7 August 1974.Petit and his crew gained entry into the towers several times and hid in upper floors and on the roofs of the unfinished buildings to study security measures. It also forces Decker throughout the course of the book and at the end to make some important and critical personal choices vis-à-vis his family. It probably didn’t need to be as convoluted as it was, but Baldacci always manages to keep all of the balls in the air and doesn’t give us plot holes that cause us sleepless nights (or am I the only one who struggles if there’s a lack of closure? On the night of Tuesday, 6 August 1974, Petit and his crew had a lucky break and got a ride in a freight elevator to the 104th floor with their equipment. In 1971, he performed his first such walk between the towers of the cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, [1] while priests were being ordained inside the building.

It was adapted and produced as an animated short film by the same title, directed by Michael Sporn and released in 2005, which won several awards. I learned the backward somersault, the front somersault, the unicycle, the bicycle, the chair on the wire, jumping through hoops. Anyhoo… I also continue to really like Alex, and we actually get a little more insight into both of their personal lives here. The song "Stand Up Comedy" by U2 on their twelfth album, No Line on the Horizon, references "The wire is stretched in between our two towers". In the thick of the investigation, help arrives mysteriously – in the form of another fan-favorite Baldacci character – who I will leave unnamed to protect the surprises in the book.As is usual, every character who is introduced seems to have a motive, and just when you think that you’ve caught onto the perpetrator, something happens to take the suspicion away.