Michael Crichton

The twin jet plane en route to Denver from Hong Kong is merely a green radar blip half an hour off the California coast when the call comes through to air traffic control: 'Socal Approach, this is TransPacific 545. We have an emergency. ' The pilot requ

Airframe

I'm not calling aviation, physics, or engineering boring, but most of this book has the flavor of a job safety video. It doesn't matter; it's interesting. A poor author can make anything awful. Crichton can make anything interesting.

Paige LeBook

Gayathri Jinesh

This book nosed up, dived down and nosed up again. A no nonsense, info-dense sci-fi. I couldn't care much about the characters, but it definitely had my heart racing.
Apart from the thriller elements, the criticism of modern media, was to the point. I found myself smile-nodding at every sentence.
Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match; you had to think several steps ahead; you had to imagine all the possible ways a reporter might distort your statement. The atmosphere was relentlessly adversarial.
But now reporters came to the story with the lead fixed in their minds; they saw their job as proving what they already knew. They didn’t want information so much as evidence of villainy. In this mode, they were openly skeptical of your point of view, since they assumed you were just being evasive. They proceeded from a presumption of universal guilt, in an atmosphere of muted hostility and suspicion.
If you don't expect too much, it's a good one time read.

Emily C Peterson

Kerri McDonald

Jeff Borton

Martha F.

Louise Briley 

Michael Cowell

Gabriel Ayuso

Caitlin Hooker

Cat Josephson

Lacy Clagg

Kaylin Twardowski

Three passengers are dead. Fifty-six are injured. The interior cabin virtually destroyed. But the pilot manages to land the plane. . . .

At a moment when the issue of safety and death in the skies is paramount in the public mind, a lethal midair disaster aboard a commercial twin-jet airliner bound from Hong Kong to Denver triggers a pressured and frantic investigation.

AIRFRAME is nonstop reading: the extraordinary mixture of super suspense and authentic information on a subject of compelling interest that has been a Crichton landmark since The Andromeda Strain.
(back cover)

Airframe

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