The Ghost Network
A Novel
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3.5 • 6 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Has the world’s hottest pop star been kidnapped, joined a secret sect, or simply gone into hiding? The answer lies in the abandoned subway stations of Chicago . . .
One minute insanely famous pop singer Molly Metropolis is on her way to a major performance in Chicago, and the next, she’s gone.
A journalist who’s been covering Molly joins the singer's personal assistant in an increasingly desperate search to find her, guided by a journal left behind in her hotel room, and possible clues hidden in her songs—all of which seem to point to an abandoned line in the Chicago subway system.
It leads them to a map of half-completed train lines underneath Chicago, which in turn leads them to the secret, subterranean headquarters of an obscure intellectual sect—and the realization that they’ve gone too far to turn back. And if a superstar can disappear without a trace . . . what can happen to these young women?
Suspenseful and wildly original, The Ghost Network is a novel about larger-than-life fantasies—of love, sex, pop music, amateur detective work, and personal reinvention. Debut novelist Catie Disabato bursts on the scene with an ingeniously plotted, witty, haunting mystery.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Wrapped in the form of pseudohistorical, multilayered investigative journalism full of footnotes from a skewed world that resembles our own, columnist Disabato's first novel is a paean to the modern urban landscape. In it she relishes questions about pop culture's relationship to intellectual culture jamming, the persistence of the ephemeral under the gaze of the obsessed, and the secrets behind public personas and public transportation. Equal parts unfolding suspense and literary treasure hunt, Disabato's document claims to be her completion of journalist Cyrus Archer's abandoned investigation of the search for Molly Metropolis, a rising pop music diva who disappears suddenly in Chicago while on tour at the height of her popularity. Archer's interviews reveal the story of music journalist Cait Taer, who seeks out Gina Nix, her old friend and Molly's personal assistant, after Molly vanishes. Together they discover Molly's secret notebook and solicit the aid of her Molly's dangerous friend, Nick Berliner, in their search. Archer traces the mystery through journals, maps, and interviews and underground into the B-sides of personality and art. The net effect is simultaneously breathlessly exhilarating and beautifully haunted.
