Twenty (Jack Swyteck #17 - James Grippando
Category: Thriller
Tags: Thriller, Mystery
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 schools 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 shes 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 hysteriaand dangerous speculation. The police havent 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 shockedAmir is married to her friend, Lilly, a WASP whose bloodline goes back to the American Revolution. When Xa
