Pub Date: 2011-03-29 Pages: 560 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers From the New York Times bestselling author of City of Light comes a compelling. richly detailed tale of passion and intrigue set in New York City during the tumultuous early days of World War II. Claire Shipley is a single mother haunted by the death of her young daughter and by her divorce years ago. She is also an ambitious photojournalist. and in the anxious days after Pearl Harbor. the talented Life magazine reporter finds herself on top of one of the nations most important stories. In the bustling labs of New York Citys renowned Rockefeller Institute. some of the countrys brightest doctors and researchers are racing to find a cure that will save the lives of thousands of wounded American soldiers and countless others -a miraculous new drug they call penicillin. Little does Claire suspe...