Turbulence, (Putnam, 2002)

Deeply disgusted and angered airline passengers stage an airborne revolt at precisely the worst moment.  Professionals in the airline industry claimed to know who each member of this functional flight crew was modelled after, but the guessing game continues.  A seminal novel illustrating the ultimate costs of poor employee treatment. BUY NOW

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The Last Hostage (Doubleday, 1998)

An aggrieved father/airline captain hijacks his own airliner to force prosecution of the man he thinks killed his daughter, and a rookie FBI negotiator named Kat Bronsky tries to talk him down to save over 130 lives – including her own. BUY NOW

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Medusa’s Child  (Doubleday, 1997)

A heart-pounding thriller about 5 people trapped aboard a cargo jet with a ticking nuclear bomb that could destroy all the computers in the northern hemisphere.  Also a successful ABC Mini-Series. BUY NOW

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Pandora’s Clock (Doubleday, 1995)

A major Worldwide New York Times Bestseller and a highly successful NBC Mini-Series about a race against time with a doomsday virus threatening the world.A plane carrying a supervirus searches for a place to land in this “combination of The Hot Zone and Speed” by a New York Times–bestselling author (USA Today). On a snowy road in a German forest, Ernest…

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Phoenix Rising (Crown, 1994)

Internationally 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 and poor service. Challenging them comes a new, visionary airline, one that combines a great name from…

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Scorpion Strike (Crown, 1992)

A military techno-thriller set after the kick off of the first Gulf War(Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield) when two estranged friends , both now Air Force Colonels, bump into each other in the middle of the Saudi Arabian desert. BUY NOW

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What Goes Up (William Morrow, 1991)

As important and relevant in the arena of global climate change as ON SHAKY GROUND is for earthquakes, WHAT GOES UP garnered high praise from Business Week (among many others) for demystifying and depoliticizing the realities of atmospheric science surrounding the accelerated slide into global atmospheric change.  Written with the pace of a thriller and…

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On Shaky Ground (William Morrow, 1988)

In the 1980’s, most Americans erroneously believed that the threat of serious earthquake damage in the U.S. was confined to California and Alaska.  This was the gripping and fast-paced book that changed all that, documenting through the lens of the personal quests of many seminal geophysical scientists the fact that 34 states stood in direct…

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Blind Trust(William Morrow, 2000)

The glib promises of low fares trumpeted by naive and overeager deregulators in the late 1970’s created a dangerous mix of entrepreneurial airlines run by people who understood little to nothing about airline safety Driven by profitability as their holy grail, such money men built amateurish flight operations in too many “low cost airlines,” which,…

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