A spark of light : a novel

Picoult, Jodi 1966- (author.).

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. But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.

Item details

ISBN: 9780345544988
ISBN: 0345544986
ISBN: 9781984817310
ISBN: 1984817310
ISBN: 9780345544995 (ebook)
Physical Description: print
369 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [2018]
Copyright: ©2018
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- Most Copies: 5 / 5.0
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Contents / Notes

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-369).

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