#2 of The Alexandra Chronicles
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FAST FACTS
—Published October 1989 by Doubleday & Company
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—2nd edition, St. Martin’s Mass Market
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In Laura Van Wormer’s eagerly awaited second novel, West End, she returns with a riveting, glamorous story of a young anchorwoman, Alexandra Waring–one of the most intriguing characters in Riverside Drive–whose mysterious charm surrounds and ultimates threatens her.
In the first scene, Alexandra makes headlines herself when a deranged admirer fires a gun at her while she’s on the air–to get her attention. This violent act foreshadows her tempestuous rise in the world of television. Wooed away from the network by Jackson Darenbrook, a dashing, womanizing Southern aristocrat who is determined to creae his own alternative network, Alexanrda has the drive, talent, and power to redesign network news. But as Darenbrook builds his awesome but gragile empire, his fiercely competitive employees burn with pride, ambition, and determination: Cassy Cochran, executive producer of DBS News and perhaps the most beautiful woman around the airwaves; Jessica Wright, the fiery auburn-haired talk show hostess extraordinaire who has her guests in tears of joy and age as they reveal their innermost secrets on the air, and whose personal life is even more sensational than her show; and miniseries producer Gordon Strenn, the young, handsome, perfect man for Alexandra to marry.
In true Van Wormer style, it is indeed a tangled web they weave at DBS News. And at the center of that web is Alexandra Waring, glamorous, mysterious, ambitious–irresistible.
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