Overview
Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims twenty casualtiesāFloridaās fifth mass shooting in as many yearsāin this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prizeāwinner James Grippando that touches on some of the most contentious issues roiling America today.
It is the message every parent of a school-age child fears: āActive Shooter on Campus.āĀ
Jack Swyteck is at his office when he receives the emergency text from Riverside Day School. Both his daughter, Righley, and his wife, FBI agent Andie Henning, are in danger. Andie is in the schoolās rec center when she hears the fire alarms, then loud popping noises and screams coming from the hallway. A trained law-enforcement officer, Andie knows sheās supposed to stay locked down inside the room. But Righley is in her kindergarten classroom and Andie must get her to safety.
The tragedy prompts mass hysteriaāand dangerous speculation. The police havenāt identified the shooter, but they find a handgun on the school grounds registered to a parent, a Muslim man named Amir Khoury. News of the gun and its owner leaks and quickly goes viral. Within minutes Al Qaeda claims responsibility. Andie is shockedāAmir is married to her friend, Lilly, a WASP whose bloodline goes back to the American Revolution.Ā
When Xavier, Amir and Lillyās oldest child and an eighteen-year-old senior at Riverside confesses to the crime, the local communityās anti-Muslim fervor explodes to levels unseen since 9/11. Terrified for her sonās life, Lilly asks Jack to step in. A seasoned defense attorney with a passion to see justice done, heās taken on plenty of complicated cases. Xavierās, however, is not one heās inclined to takeāuntil an old friend who lost his daughter in the shooting tells him that he must.Ā Ā
With the public calling for blood and prosecutors confident their case is air tight, Jack must unearth the Khourysā family secrets in order to expose the shocking truth and save his client from certain death. But he may not be able to save everyoneāincluding himself.
This book title, Twenty (A Jack Swyteck Novel) - 9780063063020, ISBN: 9780063063020, by James Grippando, published by HarperCollins (January 12, 2021) is available in paperback (large print). Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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