Издания и произведения

Джордж никогда не думал, что станет тем, кто захватывает заложников. Но сегодня утром он пришел в центр, где проводят аборты, вооруженным и отчаявшимся. Именно здесь, по его мнению, его юной дочери сделали страшную операцию, лишили искры новой жизни, и теперь они ответят за все. Полицейский детектив Хью Макэлрой не впервые вел переговоры с вооруженным преступником. На этот раз он понимал: тот, кто открыл огонь в клинике, не маньяк-убийца, а лишь отчаявшийся отец. Но внезапно Хью видит в телефоне сообщение от своей дочери. И сердце опытного полицейского замирает… Этим утром судьбы незнакомых людей причудливо переплетаются, и теперь их жизни…

The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller 'A writer the world needs to be reading right now' The Independent 'An apposite and nuanced novel... Picoult writes about an emotive, controversial issue with unflinching precision.' Red 'Incredibly compelling and page turning' Dolly Alderton 'A very special novel about a very difficult subject.' Grazia 'Her intelligent, meticulously researched novels explore ethical dilemmas through heartrending, headline-grabbing scenarios' The Sunday Times A lone gunman takes the women and doctors at a controversial abortion clinic hostage. Nobody has ended up there by choice. As the tense negotiation for their…

The Center for women's reproductive health offers a last chance at hope - but nobody ends up there by choice. Its very existence is controversial, and to the demonstrators who barricade the building every day, the service it offers is no different from legalised murder. Now life and death decisions are being made horrifyingly real: a lone protester with a gun has taken the staff, patients and visitors hostage. Starting at the tensest moment in the negotiations for their release, A Spark of Light unravels backwards, revealing hour by urgent hour what brought each of these people - the gunman, the negotiator, the doctors, nurses and…

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…