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John Corey novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
On a Long Island beach at dusk, Bob Mitchell and Janet Whitney 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 the camera, the couple flees as approaching police cars speed toward the scene. Five years later, the crash of Flight 800 has been attributed to a mechanical mal-function. But for John Corey and Kate Mayfield, both members of the Elite...
2) Sleepwalker
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 9
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
An airliner explodes over the Atlantic leaving 345 people dead. Crash investigators suspect terrorism, but they're getting nowhere. A distressed 12-year-old calls a police hotline and blames his father for the explosion. It could be a breakthrough, but there's no hard evidence.
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Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty years after her father's plane crashed in the jungles of south-east Asia, Willy Jane Maitland is taking a trip through hell. Saigon is teeming, hot and dangerous. But her search for the truth about that fateful flight is about to make her life even hotter still."
Author
Series
Tom Wilde novels volume 5
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Professor Tom Wilde, a Cambridge spy, is sent by the Allies to investigate the death of Prince George, brother of the King of England, in 1942 Britain.
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
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"In The Crash Detectives, veteran aviation journalist and air safety investigator Christine Negroni takes us inside crash investigations from the early days of the jet age to the present, including the search for answers about what happened to the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. As Negroni dissects what happened and why, she explores their common themes and, most important, what has been learned from them to make planes safer. Indeed, as Negroni...
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"On Tuesday, November 17, 1942, aircraft CNAC # 60 climbed slowly toward the Himalayas, growing smaller and smaller until it finally faded from sight, never to be seen again--until seventy years later"--
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
" From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. On September 1, 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the tiny Pacific archipelago of Palau, leaving behind a trail of mysteries. For more than sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the archipelago for clues...
15) Breaking point
Author
Series
Crashers volume 2
Publisher
Recorded Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
En route to a conference, three NTSB experts are aboard a twin turbo prop plane when it crashes into a thickly forested moutainside. But the crash isn't an accident. The plane was brought down on purpose--and the NTSB experts weren't the real target.
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