Synopsis
A gripping family drama that weaves together stories about the value we place on a human life.It' s 2010 and Frank has just learned that Britain' s National Health Service will no longer pay to keep his comatose mother on life support. He and his estranged sisters- two in the US like him and the other in the UK with their mom- open painful family scars as they wrestle with the moral issues of ending their mother' s life or draining their bank accounts to temporarily extend it.Meanwhile, Frank' s son is making a very different calculation. From an Air Force base in Nevada, he operates a predator drone 7,000 miles away in Afghanistan. Each of his kills, he' s told, will save the lives of multiple Americans his high-value targets would otherwise take out. One day, through his eye in the sky, he notices the daughter of the man he' s been ordered to surveil, and he soon becomes obsessed with her. As his imagined relationship takes on a life of its own, the kill order comes in and he' s forced to weigh the costs of following- or not following- orders. A world away, one of the most-deadly earthquakes on record hits Haiti, trapping Frank' s sister' s Haitian-born girlfriend in Port-au-Prince. Cut off from the outside, she must fight for survival and will learn that a life can be as inexpensive to save as the price of a gallon of water.As the stories intertwine and eventually come to a head, a most unexpected miracle will remind them all of the true value of a human life.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Level 4 Press, Inc.
- ISBN: 9781646307937
- Number of pages: 360
- Dimensions: 229 x 152 mm
- Languages: English
