A Spark of Light A Novel

Jodi Picoult

eBook - 2018

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis.Look for Jodi Picoult’s new novel, By Any Other Name, available now!“Picoult at her fearless best . . . Timely, balanced and certain to inspire debate.”—The Washington Post 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... more