When The Wind Blows

By James Patterson

Genre: Science Fiction

Publication Date: 1998

Number of Pages: 416

Summary

When Frannie O’Neill’s husband was killed, she has pulled back from her booming veterinarian practice and started keeping to herself. Then things changed one night when she finds a girl, Max, running through the woods. Max has special talents that make her valuable to the school she escaped. Kit Harrison, a troubled FBI agent, goes undercover in Bear Bluff Colorado investigating the deaths of doctors involved in embryonic research. Kit and Frannie find themselves coming together to help Max free the other children from the school.

Subject Headings:

Women veterinarians

Government investigators

Medicine, Experimental

Genetic engineering

Flight

Colorado

Three terms that describe this book: 

Suspenseful

This book keeps readers on the edge of their seats. A great example is when Max is at the fence and she is trapped. The bad people are closing in but she figures out she has an ability that allows her to escape.

Fast-paced
James Patterson writes in short chapters. Events and characters keep moving so that readers want to keep turning the pages to find out what happens.

Disturbing

The bad guys in this book are meddling with nature. They are genetically modifying children for their own purposes.

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Jupiter by Ben Bova