Accidental heroes : a novel

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Label

Accidental heroes : a novel

Title remainder

a novel

Statement of responsibility

Danielle Steel

Creator

• Steel, Danielle,
• trueSteel, Danielle

Author

• Steel, Danielle,

Subject

• Detective and mystery fiction
• trueFlight attendants
• trueFlights
• trueFormer Air Force pilots
• trueGolden Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.)
• trueGovernment investigators
• trueHijacking of aircraft
• trueJohn F. Kennedy International Airport
• John F. Kennedy International Airport -- Fiction
• Large type books
• trueLife change events
• Life change events -- Fiction
• trueMainstream fiction
• trueRescues
• Romantic suspense fiction
• trueSan Francisco, California
• trueSurvival
• trueTerrorism -- Prevention
• Terrorism -- Prevention -- Fiction
• trueUnited States, Department of Homeland Security
• trueNew York City
• Airline security personnel -- Fiction
• Airports -- Security measures -- Fiction

Genre

• Large type books
• trueMainstream fiction
• Romantic suspense fiction
• Fiction
• Detective and mystery fiction

Language

eng

Summary

"A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel--a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco. On a beautiful May morning at New York's John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco--one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous--perhaps ominous--message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, still grappling with guilt after a disastrous operation in which hostages were killed, Ben too becomes suspicious. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean? As Ben scans the passenger manifests, his focus turns to the A321, with Helen Smith as its senior pilot. Helen's military service and her tenure with the airline have been exemplary. But her husband's savage death in Iraq was more than anyone should bear, leaving her widowed with three children. A major film star is on board. So is an off-duty pilot who has just lost his forty-year career. So is a distraught father, traveling with the baby son he has abducted from his estranged wife. Sifting through data and relying on instinct, Ben becomes convinced that someone on Helen's plane is planning something terrible. And he's right. Passengers, crew, and experts on the ground become heroes out of necessity to try to avert tragedy at the eleventh hour. In her stunning novel Danielle Steel combines intense action with stories of emotionally rich, intertwined lives. As the jet bears down on its destination of San Francisco, strangers are united, desperate choices are made, and futures will be changed forever by a handful of accidental heroes."--

Tone

• trueSuspenseful

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

BTCTA

Dewey number

813/.54

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3569.T33828

LC item number

A66 2018b

Literary form

fiction

Target audience

adult