DescriptionMary Higgins Clark creates suspense high above the earth with 2 different stories set aboard jetliners. In "Stowaway, " a young stewardess discovers a boyish rebel huddled in a closet. She must decide whether she should help him escape a ruthless regime's police force or protect the airline and the pilot, a man she once loved. In the second story, "Milk Run, " a passenger has snatched the magazine entrusted to Jen by her new fiance, an investigative journalist. There are 3 suspects: a middle-aged executive, a man who has just learned of his father's heart attack, and a proud father returning from a visit to his son. Without neglecting her duties as stewardess, she must discover who has taken the magazine before the plane lands in New York.
DescriptionAn international dispute centered on an oil-rich chain of islands in the South China Sea is the premise for this action-packed thriller from the author of Hammerheads and Day of the Cheetah .
DescriptionIn this electrifying thriller, 2 heads are better than one, but can they take on a drug cartel? There's a deadly war being waged off the coast of southern Florida as Colombian drug lords dump thousands of illicit drugs on our shores every year. When Sandra Geffar, head of the U.S. Customs Department, and Ian Hardcastle, head of the Coast Guard, put their past differences behind them, they come up with a daring top-secret operation - dubbed "Hammerheads" - to put an end to airborne drug smuggling. Using the most high-tech weaponry available, they propose to stamp out the Colombian cartel, but that's just the beginning. The smugglers have no choice but to up the ante...
DescriptionThe night that Flight 229 exploded on landing at Washington's Dulles Airport, killing almost 400 passengers, a mission began that would become an obsession for James Bond. Who was responsible for destroying the British-owned aircraft? For Bond, the search for answers has a personal meaning - his former lover, the Principessa Sukie Tempesta, is listed as one of the ill-fated passengers. In this white-knuckle 007 thriller, John Gardner leads master spy James Bond on the most complex and demanding assignment of his entire career.
DescriptionOn an airplane bound for London from Paris, one of the 11 passengers is dead. The small red puncture wound on the woman's neck might have been accepted as a sting from a wasp, but luck is not on the killer's side. Hercule Poirot is aboard the plane, and he discovers a thorn typically used with a blowpipe near the victim's feet. As he tackles the case, suspicion points in all directions, even back to Poirot, when the blowpipe is found tucked behind his very own seat. Can Poirot prevent the culprit from getting away with murder?
DescriptionFor some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man. My disease has increased in severity and I feel that it will soon cost me an increased amount of money if not my life. So wrote a quiet young Ohioan in 1900, one in an…
DescriptionInternationally acclaimed aviation insider and novelist John J. Nance moves with polished ease and compelling authenticity from the cockpit to the boardroom in a world where the big three U.S. airlines have achieved national dominance, with high prices an…
DescriptionIn this fascinating biography, Fred C. Kelly, a former newspaperman, author, and an old friend of the Wrights, tells the story of the 2 brilliant, dedicated, flight-obsessed bicycle mechanics from Ohio who first realized mankind's age-old dream of conquering the skies. Long considered the definitive Wright Brothers biography (the manuscript was read and approved by Orville Wright), Kelly's work recounts the Wrights' small-town boyhood, their early interest in all things mechanical, the establishment of the Wright Cycle Shop, and the complete behind-the-scenes story of how they designed, built, tested, and flew (December, 1903) the first "Flyer."…
