- Mass Market Paperback: 438 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press (Nov 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312960344
- ISBN-13: 978-0312960346
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,229,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"A combination of "The Hot Zone "and "Speed."" --"USA Today"
"Expect the time of your life." --"Chicago Tribune"
"Gripping." --"Wall Street Journal"
"A first-class ride." --"People"
"Expect the time of your life." --"Chicago Tribune"
"Gripping." --"Wall Street Journal"
"A first-class ride." --"People"
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Captain James Holland is the pilot on a routine flight from Frankfurt to New York, packed with people eager to be home for Christmas. When a passenger collapses from what appears to be a heart attack, Holland is forced to request an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. But to his great surprise, the air traffic controllers will not let him land in England - they tell Holland that his sick passenger has contracted a dangerous new form of influenza and that the plane must return to Germany. But when German officials also refuse the landing, and other European countries follow suit, Holland begins to suspect that he's in much more trouble than anyone's letting on. In fact, his sick passenger is carrying a deadly virus accidentally released from a Bavarian laboratory, and it is feared that everyone on board is now infected. At the same time, someone with access to the CIA's computers wants to shoot the plane out of the sky, and there is a United States ambassador on board with powerful terrorist enemies who want to see him dead. While the panic on the ground spreads from the White House Situation Room to a small airport in the Ukrainian Republic, Captain Holland has only one concern: Where and when can he land?
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I had seen the movie on TV before I read the book and I thoroughly enjoyed it - it literally kept me on the edge of my seat all the way. So, when I stumbled upon the novel in a bookshop, I just had to buy it.
This book really makes you think: what if? There is a passenger on a plane with a contagious virus; no airport wants to let the plane land there, and some fighter plane is trying to shoot the passenger jet down. What to do?
Usually I find books of the type where you have many characters thrown into a calamity of sorts a bit boring. In many of this kind of book, the author would get carried away with the emotions of all the different characters and cause the pace of the story to become sluggish. This is fine if the book is not a thriller novel, but in a thriller the author must keep the pace up and actually increase it as the story progresses. Well, John J. Nance has masterfully succeeded in making this an excellent thriller by keeping the pace and suspense at very high levels. At the same time, he created engaging characters, but not too many of them, and did not focus too much on all their emotions, but just enough so that I could actually sense the fear and hopelessness amongst them.
This was a great thrill ride that kept me on the edge of my seat, just as in the movie.
This book really makes you think: what if? There is a passenger on a plane with a contagious virus; no airport wants to let the plane land there, and some fighter plane is trying to shoot the passenger jet down. What to do?
Usually I find books of the type where you have many characters thrown into a calamity of sorts a bit boring. In many of this kind of book, the author would get carried away with the emotions of all the different characters and cause the pace of the story to become sluggish. This is fine if the book is not a thriller novel, but in a thriller the author must keep the pace up and actually increase it as the story progresses. Well, John J. Nance has masterfully succeeded in making this an excellent thriller by keeping the pace and suspense at very high levels. At the same time, he created engaging characters, but not too many of them, and did not focus too much on all their emotions, but just enough so that I could actually sense the fear and hopelessness amongst them.
This was a great thrill ride that kept me on the edge of my seat, just as in the movie.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This novel was one of the best that I have recently read. It was gripping right up to the very end and the suspense was huge. I hugely recomend this novel to anyone even remotely interesting in flying, but only if you have a strong stomach!
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I previously had a copy of this book which I have read many times but due to age the pages started to fall out ... I was hoping for a kindle version but its not available (presumably due to the age of the book) so I purchased another.
Its a high action book with lots of emotion. This book was also made into a straight to TV movie "The Doomsday Virus".
Its a high action book with lots of emotion. This book was also made into a straight to TV movie "The Doomsday Virus".
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