A spark of light : a novel
Title
:
A spark of light : a novel
Personal Author EPSB
:
Jodi, Picoult
Summary
:
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center -- a women's reproductive health services clinic -- its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.
Year Published
:
2018
Physical Description
:
369 pages ; 25 cm
Subject
:
Women's health services -- Fiction
Hostages -- Fiction
Hostage negotiations -- Fiction
Abortion services -- Fiction.
Abortion -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Fiction.
Family planning services -- Fiction
Domestic terrorism -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Mississippi -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Suspense fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Summary
:
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center -- a women's reproductive health services clinic -- its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage. After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.
ISBN
:
9780345813411
9780345544988
9780345813428
Publisher
:
Toronto : Random House Canada, 2018.
New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
©2018
Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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Edmonton Christian High | FIC PIC | Book | 30905000107767 | Fiction |