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One Breath Away

One Breath Away

Author(s): Heather Gudenkauf

Location(s): Iowa

Genre(s): Fiction, Thriller

Era(s): Modern

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He has a gun.

Who? Tell me, where are you? Who has a gun?

I love you, Mum.

An ordinary school day in March, snowflakes falling, classroom freezing, kids squealing with delight, locker-doors slamming.

Then the shooting started. No-one dared take one breath…

He s holding a gun to your child s head.

One wrong answer and he says he ll shoot.

This morning you waved goodbye to your child.

What would you have said if you d known it might be the last time?

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Tensely chilling, a portrayal of the foibles of humankind, all the terror and heroism, the reality – this is rural Iowa… Shane Defridge –

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