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03081aam a2200313 i 4500 001 01F8C1DAC4BE11EEB847D6DA21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240206010118 008 211207s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a bl2021030202 020 $a 0063087693 020 $a 9780063087699 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Grippando, James, $d 1958-, $e author. $t Twenty. 245 1 $a Twenty / $c James Grippando. 250 $a First Harper Paperbacks edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Harper, $c 2021. 300 $a 372 pages ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a Jack Swyteck ; $v 17 520 $a Jack Swyteck and his family are caught in the crossfire after a deadly school shooting claims 20 casualties - Floridaâs fifth mass shooting in as many years - in this provocative and timely thriller from Harper Lee Prize winner 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: "Active Shooter on Campus." 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 schoolâs 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 sheâs 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 hysteria - and dangerous speculation. The police havenât 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 shocked - Amir is married to her friend, Lilly, a WASP whose bloodline goes back to the American Revolution. When Xavier, Amir and Lillyâs oldest child and an 18-year-old senior at Riverside, confesses to the crime, the local communityâs anti-Muslim fervor explodes to levels unseen since 9/11. Terrified for her sonâs life, Lilly asks Jack to step in. A seasoned defense attorney with a passion to see justice done, heâs taken on plenty of complicated cases. Xavierâs, however, is not one heâs inclined to take - until an old friend who lost his daughter in the shooting tells him that he must. With the public calling for blood and prosecutors confident their case is air tight, Jack must unearth the Khourysâ family secrets in order to expose the shocking truth and save his client from certain death. But he may not be able to save everyone - including himself. 541 $d 20231214. 650 $a Lawyers $z Miami $z Miami $v Fiction. 650 4 $a School Shootings $x Fiction. 655 7 $a Legal Fiction (Literature.) 655 $a Thrillers (Fiction.) 830 $a Jack Swyteck ; $v 17. 941 $a 1 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20240206022735.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=01F8C1DAC4BE11EEB847D6DA21ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search