Airframe
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...
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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.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679446484 (0679446486)
Publish date: November 27th 1996
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
American,
Romance,
Mystery,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Action,
Suspense
I read this in about 24 hours, so that speaks of how compelling of a read this one is. Somehow I missed this Crichton thriller when it came out. It's a gripping thriller, plus I learned a lot more about aircraft manufacture in 1 day than having a brother work at Boeing for a few years. What make...
Synopsis: After a disastrous air travel accident that left passengers injured and dead, a company rep races to discover what happened amid a background of unfolding drama and deception. Review: I wasn't super excited to start this book, suspense fiction isn't really my thing, and suspense fiction ...
Pretty light and fluffy. Airplane reading, quite literally. Crichton does delve pretty deep into aviation jargon, so the start of the book is satisfyingly crunchy and technical. But the characters come off too flat -- there's almost something pedagogical about it. I felt as though Crichton was tryin...
Just who do you trust to tell the truth?
It's been a while, but I remember this being VERY different from his other books. Even more technical than usual. Interesting, but a slow read.
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