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A novel of political intrigue (the time is 1998) with overtones of a classic Hitchcock thriller; a story of a romantic encounter—of two strangers suddenly invading each other’s lives.
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
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Reminiscent of the work of the late Brian Moore, with the addition of a climactic scene that could have come straight from Junger's The Perfect Storm, this competent albeit derivative and inflammatory thriller delivers some exciting moments as well as insights into the mind of a woman who slowly realizes her own complicity in the wreck of her marriage. "
LIBRARY JOURNAL
"a gripping, cinematic tale by the author of The Cliff Walk that can well be recommended for the general library audience. "
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Knopf | 288 pages | ISBN 0375409068 | June 12, 2001
NIGHT CROSSING
A Novel
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.
The book was a part of the Ballantine Reader's Circle and was reprinted with an alternate cover.
DISCUSSIONS
Don J. Snyder on the Diane Rehm Show to talk about
"Night Crossing on June 25, 2001
In August of 1998, a terrorist bombing in the center of Omagh, Northern Ireland, killed 28 people. Author Don Snyder traveled to Omagh a few days later, and his observations of the tragedy's aftermath inspired a novel. In his story, the bombing becomes the centerpiece of a story about the relationship between an American woman and a British soldier.
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