Thomas Block has created Captain his most ambitious intricate and actionpacked aviation tale yet It is a chilling and alltooreal story about a routine TransAtlantic airline flight that suddenly turns absolutely insane In the doomed airliners cockpit inside the passenger cabin and on the ground a complex array of characters have been propelled at jet speed into a sudden and frantic race for survivalCaptain is about the individual and collective struggles of each of these men and women as they attempt to deal with and ultimately fight against the odds and circumstances that are stacked against themCaptain is a novel that pits man against man while also pitting man against machine It is a story about the need for human judgments hardlearned experiences gut feelings and unbridled perseverance in an effort to rise up against a world where the strict adherence to written rules regulations and procedures have been accepted as the normCaptain is about the way real airline pilots think feel and react especially after those giant airliners that theyve strapped themselves to have suddenly turned vicious and unpredictableAuthor Nelson DeMille says of CaptainAfter a long hiatus from writing Captain Block rejoins the ranks of legendary pilotsturnednovelists such as Ernest K Gann The High and the Mighty and brings us Captain one of the best aviationadventure thrillers you will ever readCaptain puts you in the cockpit in the passenger cabin and at airline headquarters with an intricate and intriguing array of characters This novel is nothing short of the most frightening and heartpounding TransAtlantic flight since Charles Lindberghs solo Or will it turn out to be Amelia Earharts tragic Pacific crossingCaptain is right up there with the best of the aviation thrillers an edge of your seat story of what happens when something goes horribly wrong when there is no room for wrong Captain Block knows his stuff and it shows on every page Welcome aboard