Falling: A Novel
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#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "T. J. Newman has written the perfect thriller! A must-read." --Gillian Flynn"Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet." --Don Winslow
"Falling is the best kind of thriller...Nonstop, totally authentic suspense." --James Patterson
"Amazing...Intense suspense, shocks, and scares...Chilling." --Lee Child You just boarded a flight to New York. There are one hundred and forty-three other passengers onboard. What you don't know is that thirty minutes before the flight your pilot's family was kidnapped. For his family to live, everyone on your plane must die. The only way the family will survive is if the pilot follows his orders and crashes the plane. Enjoy the flight.
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A pilot is forced to make a choice between saving his wife and children or the plane full of passengers he is flying from LA to New York.
While it was at times very cliche and I guessed that the author was new to the “published” roster, I was entertained while reading.
Not sure I will read anything else from her, but I would watch this one as a movie. Maybe Idris Elba could play Bill.
During a red-eye flight, debut author T.J. Newman, then a flight attendant, looked at the passengers, many of whom were sleeping, and really pondered the fact that passengers' lives are in the pilot's hands. For the first time, she thought about how the pilots have so much power and responsibility that they are vulnerable. She recalls asking a pilot, "'What would you do if you find out that your family has been taken, and you're told that if you ...read more
An intensely riveting read. I enjoyed this book a lot once I got started I could not put it down till the end. With engaging characters who had me rooting for them at every turn. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking for a high suspense thriller that you will not be able to put down.
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