Kirkus Reviews QR Code LIGHTNING by John Lutz   By John Lutz
Pub Date: July 1st, 1996 ISBN: 0-8050-4379-9 Publisher: Henry
Holt   Because she's decided to cancel her appointment at the
Women's Light reproductive clinic and have Fred Carver's baby
after all, black reporter Beth Jackson is on hand to get injured
in a bombing that kills Wanda Creighton and Dr. Harold Grimm.
Carver, without a client, then hunkers down to get the goods on
Adam Norton, the auto mechanic who was seen running out of the
clinic moments before the blast, and on Operation Alive, the
militant anti-abortion group that's condemning member Norton's
tactics while lending him their lawyer. Norton's wife tells
Carver that the police have no business persecuting her husband,
since although he'd fully intended to bomb some abortion clinic,
he hadn't actually gotten around to planting the bomb yet. Nate
Posey, Wanda's fiancÇ, wants to hire Carver, but Carver wonders
if Posey didn't plant the bomb himself for Wanda's insurance.
Meantime, a cop a