- Hardcover: 480 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company; 2nd Revised edition edition (5 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316647055
- ISBN-13: 978-0316647052
- Product Dimensions: 22.2 x 14.8 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 609,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Fascinating, frightening, and furiously paced...a story of almost unrelenting suspense"
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Silhouetted against the deep blue horizon of the stratosphere, Trans-United Flight 52 cruised westbound toward Japan. Read the first page
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Super, Nelson Demille does it yet again. Once more he has run out a thrilling pageturner that you won't be able to put down. This book has so many twists and turns, and the politics of the air company bosses and in particular their insurers are shocking. Throughout the book you will be worried about "the landing" and how on earth it will be accomplished, but it seems highly realistic. I have now read 9 of Nelson Demille's 13 books and would rate this in the top 3 probably. Read it!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a literary version of 'Snakes on a plane.' Anything that can go wrong, does go wrong and there are evil, evil men out there, from the US Navy, the airline and, bizarrely, the airline's insurers who are doing all they can to stop our plucky passenger pilot bringing home a crippled supersonic liner after the crew have been killed or incapacitated.
The book was written in the seventies and updated in the late nineties, so, even though it is pre-September 11th, it is not dated. Nelson De Mille has been writing big, door-stop thrillers since Noah was a boy and I can recall reading 'By the Rivers of Babylon' and 'Cathedral' when I was at school. Of late, I have found his work more than a bit turgid and unfocussed. However this one, from a better, vanished time, is both shorter and snappier.
The US Navy manages to fire a missile at a supersonic airliner causing a truly horrific decompression at 62,000 feet. The pilots, with their dying breaths effectively, manage to get the plane down to an altitude where the air is breathable. Sadly all of the passngers that weren't sucked out of the hole caused by the missile have suffered irreparable brain damage through oxygen deprivation and are wondering around moaning, fighting, playing the piano....
Zombies on a plane !!
The only 'survivors' are the people who were in the toilets which maintained some sort of atmosphere through the descent.
The Navy wants them dead, so does the airline, not wanting to get stuck with paying compensation for looking after hundreds of brain damaged travellers, but the amateur pilot bringing the crippled plane home is not just tough, smart and clever; he's tough, smart and clever with impeccable flying skills.
It's just great. Total page turner. Wonderfully over the top.
Read it
The book was written in the seventies and updated in the late nineties, so, even though it is pre-September 11th, it is not dated. Nelson De Mille has been writing big, door-stop thrillers since Noah was a boy and I can recall reading 'By the Rivers of Babylon' and 'Cathedral' when I was at school. Of late, I have found his work more than a bit turgid and unfocussed. However this one, from a better, vanished time, is both shorter and snappier.
The US Navy manages to fire a missile at a supersonic airliner causing a truly horrific decompression at 62,000 feet. The pilots, with their dying breaths effectively, manage to get the plane down to an altitude where the air is breathable. Sadly all of the passngers that weren't sucked out of the hole caused by the missile have suffered irreparable brain damage through oxygen deprivation and are wondering around moaning, fighting, playing the piano....
Zombies on a plane !!
The only 'survivors' are the people who were in the toilets which maintained some sort of atmosphere through the descent.
The Navy wants them dead, so does the airline, not wanting to get stuck with paying compensation for looking after hundreds of brain damaged travellers, but the amateur pilot bringing the crippled plane home is not just tough, smart and clever; he's tough, smart and clever with impeccable flying skills.
It's just great. Total page turner. Wonderfully over the top.
Read it
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is pretty gripping stuff, especially given the potentially cliched subject matter. But somehow it had an extra element that stopped it being just another midair disaster story. Could make a good basis for a movie . . . .
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Un-putdownable!
Suspend belief and enjoy.
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Published on 26 Jun 2007 by S. Warburton
Simply the best!
This is one of those novels that you simply don't want to end!
There is so much more to this book than just a stricken airliner. Read more
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Published on 1 Dec 2006 by S. M. Saunders
My favourite book
I found this book to be fast paced and exciting from start to finish. A little unnerving as I was reading the book at 35000 feet on a commercial aircraft! Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2005 by "danielsposner"
Not impressive
Hackneyed, trite, cliche, etc. I am a big fan of Nelson Demille but this "thriller" is his least impressive work. Read more
Published on 5 May 2003 by Thomas Hall
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