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Night crossing : a novel

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Description

277 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Night Crossing carries us from a quiet Boston suburb to a wild pursuit across the northern counties of Ireland. The man and woman who find themselves bound together are from two different worlds.
Nora is an American, married, pregnant, leading the most ordinary middle-class life until, one day, she finds her husband in the arms of another woman - and explodes out of her house, out of Boston, headed for an Irish countryside she long ago fell in love with, intending to walk across the open green fields where she will decide how her life is to proceed. But on the way, waiting in a clinic in Northern Ireland, contemplating an abortion, she hears a woman screaming in the street.
A mammoth bomb has exploded.".
"Immediately, instinctively, Nora comes to the aid of a wounded man, a British soldier. And from that moment everything spirals out of control. Suddenly Nora is on the run, in the middle of someone else's nightmare - her pursuers are revealed as British Intelligence, and the anonymous wounded Brit as a man with a past, a personality, a direction, an importance, a name - and an adversary - of his own.
What follows through eight terrifying days is a chase in the grand manner - his life in her hands, her life upended - culminating in a daring night crossing of the Irish Sea to Scotland and to the moment of truth."--BOOK JACKET.

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Genre/Form

Suspense fiction.

ISBN

0375409068 (alk. paper)

LCCN

00062008

OCLC

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries