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Air Force One (Mass Market Paperback)

by Max Collins (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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  • Mass Market Paperback: 259 pages
  • Publisher: Ballantine Books Inc.; Film tie-in edition edition (31 Dec 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0345419758
  • ISBN-13: 978-0345419750
  • Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,419,354 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The President's airplane is hijacked by terrorists who threaten to kill the hostages one by one--including the President's wife and daughter--until their demands are met.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars One of the best novelizations I've read, 20 Sep 1998
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Sometimes I wonder why Max Allan Collins doesn't write the scripts of the films he novelizes. His entries in the genre, including In the Line of Fire and Dick Tracy,often have better dialogue and more fleshed out characters than the films themselves (though in the character department, you couldn't really improve on In the Line of Fire). His novel Air Force One is the book the movie should have been based on. I really enjoyed the film, but, having read this fine book, I think I would have believed the film more if it was, I don't know, more like the novel! As you read the book, you'll discover there are scenes and dialogue you wish were in the film (the sequence where President James Marshall drinks a beer before takeoff becomes a funny discourse with his aides over the political mileage the President could get from drinking Russian beer as opposed to Heineken), and best of all, the characters and there motivations are a good deal more believable, somehow, on the printed page than on the silver screen, maybe because a writer can just write things as exposition that a screenwriter can't put effectively into dialogue. I've always enjoyed Mr. Collins' work, especially his series of historical mysteries about private eye Nathan Heller, and this is a great addition to his body of work. Most of the people I know would think themselves above movie novelizations, but this one is a terrific book anybody'd be glad to have read. I know I was.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good action pageturner, 19 Jan 1998
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Gripped me from the first page. Although I read it after I'd seen the movie, I think this enhanced my enjoyment, being able to visualise the well-wrought characters more easily. Definitely one for a long journey, or lazy days with a beer.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Better than or as good as the movie, 7 Jul 1998
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I know it word for word. The line of the book is when the Vice-President (Katherine Bennet) is talking to the President James Marshell about negotiating with the terrosits. and James says, " Katherine if you give a mouse a cookie...." Then Katherine replays,".....He is going to want a glass of milk." What does that mean to you
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5.0 out of 5 stars One great book
I'm 11 years and this was one of the best books I read. I know this because when ever I had the time I was stuck in that book. Read more
Published on 14 Dec 1997

5.0 out of 5 stars It was a REALLY good book!
I started reading this book one day at my grandma's house and I read it for 4 1/2 hours non-stop! It is probably just like the movie, but it is really good anyway! Read more
Published on 18 Aug 1997

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