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1) Night fall
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Nelson DeMille does it again with Elite Anti-terrorist Task Force Agents John Corey and Kate Mayfield discovering corruption deep in the FBI and they set out to find the truth.
On a Long Island beach at dusk, Bob Mitchell and JanetWhitney conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera, set to record each steamy moment. Suddenly a terrible explosion lights up the sky. Grabbing...
On a Long Island beach at dusk, Bob Mitchell and JanetWhitney conduct their illicit love affair in front of a video camera, set to record each steamy moment. Suddenly a terrible explosion lights up the sky. Grabbing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
A woman learns her husband's plane has crashed and he is dead, only to receive a call from him on the day of his funeral. It's the start of a financial thriller involving computer companies, big bucks and crooks who operate online.
3) Airframe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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...
Author
Language
English
Description
When the roar of a low-flying plane awakens him in the middle of the night, Sheriff Winston Barnes knows something strange is happening at the nearby airfield on the coast of North Carolina. But nothing can prepare him for what he finds: a large airplane has crash-landed and is now sitting sideways on the runway, and there are no signs of a pilot or cargo. When the body of a local man is discovered—shot dead and lying on the grass near the crash...
6) Crashers
Author
Series
Crashers volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
When a passenger plane, a Vermeer One Eleven, slams into the ground outside Portland, Oregon, a team--the "crashers"-- is quickly assembled to investigate the cause. Usually the team has months to determine the cause of a crash. But this time it's different. This time, the plane was brought down deliberately, without leaving a trace, and this was only a trial run.
Author
Series
Crashers volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When an enigmatic mercenary uses banned technological weapons to crash a small airplane as a warning to potential whistleblowers, an ensuing cat-and-mouse chase ensnares three strategically important survivors in a complicated international web.
8) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While assisting Sergeant Jim Chee to investigate a robbery, Joe Leaphorn turns up a clue that leads to a search for the remains of a passenger--carrying a fortune in diamonds--on a plane that went down in the Grand Canyon fifty years earlier.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Sir Maurice Newbury and Miss Veronica Hobbes, agents of Queen Victoria, battle both physical and supernatural enemies of the crown. They are called in to investigate the wreckage of a crashed airship and its missing automaton pilot while dealing with a zombie plague in the slums of the capital and attempting to solve a string of strangulations credited to a mysterious glowing policeman.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
First, it’s just a barely believable rumor: one person may have survived the midair explosion of a passenger jet on a cross-country course from Washington, D.C., to San Francisco. But soon she becomes a national media sensation when “the Falling Woman,” as the press dubs her, is said to have been taken to a Wichita hospital—and then to have disappeared without a trace. As a dedicated National Transportation Safety Bureau agent joins the search...
Author
Series
Jammer Davis thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
"Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen...but for one terrible detail--his young daughter, who was enroute to a semester abroad in South America, is listed on the passenger manifest. A distraught Davis rushes to Bogotá and bulls his way into the inquiry. When the wreckage is located, it becomes clear...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
En una nublada noche de verano, once personas despegan en un jet privado rumbo a Nueva York. Diez de ellas pertenecen a la alta sociedad de Estados Unidos. El undécimo pasajero es Scott Burroughs, un artista en horas bajas. Dieciséis minutos después sucede lo impensable: el avión se estrella en el océano. Solo sobrevivirán el pintor y un niño de cuatro años, último miembro de una familia rica y poderosa.A medida que se descubre la historia...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Después de 16 años, regresa el autor de La carretera, ganador del Premio Pulitzer. Dos novelas extraordinarias. Una obra maestra. Entre los mejores libros de 2022 según Babelia, El Mundo, ABC y La Vanguardia. «Javier Marías, preguntado por si él era candidato al Nobel, respondió que si alguien merecía ese galardón era Cormac McCarthy». Enrique Murillo, El País El pasajero 1980, Mississippi. Son las tres de la madrugada cuando Bobby...
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