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Silent Night

Mary Higgins Clark

1995153 pagesabout 2–4 hours
1995
first published
  • 1995Simon & Schuster · 154 pages · ENGISBN 9780684815459
  • 1995Simon & Schuster, Incorporated · 320 pagesISBN 9780743246910
  • 2003Chivers Press · 153 pages · ENGISBN 9780754073987
  • 1996Pocket · 192 pages · ENGISBN 9780671000424
  • 2002Pocket Books · 160 pagesISBN 9780743450300
  • 1995Simon & Schuster · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780684815466
  • 1999Tandem Library · ENGISBN 9780613014359
  • 1999Pocket Books · 160 pagesISBN 9780671037772

When her husband was diagnosed with leukemia, Catherine Dornan and their two young sons accompanied him to New York, during the Christmas season, for a life-saving operation. Hoping to divert the boys from worry about their father, and to temper her own near despair, on Christmas Eve Catherine takes the boys to see Rockefeller Center's famous Christmas tree. When they stop to listen to a street musician, Brian, the younger boy, sees a woman take his mother's wallet, which holds a precious memento his grandmother has just given them, a St. Christopher medal that saved her husband's life in World War II, and which she and Brian believe will save his father's life now. Unable to get his mother's attention, Brian impulsively follows the woman who has taken the wallet into the city's subways, thereby beginning a journey that will threaten his life and change that of his mother and of the thief, as well.

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