Family Saga, Women's Fiction, Literary, Women's health services, Hostage negotiations, Hostages, Family planning services, Abortion services, Abortion--Moral and ethical aspects, Domestic terrorism, Women's rights 

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. 

Genre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction.)
Thriller fiction
Fiction
Novels
Thrillers (Fiction)
Suspense fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jodi Picoult
ISBN: 9780345544988 0345544986 9781984817310 1984817310 9781984800671 1984800671 9781984828095 1984828096
OCLC Number: 1027810759
Description: 369 pages ; 25 cm
Responsibility: Jodi Picoult.