You can save hundreds of lives. Or the one that matters most.
Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems of her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. Someone who needs Mina's assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply.
It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.
Ladies and gentlemen, Clare Mackintosh has turned on the fasten seat belt sign. We are going to experience severe turbulence. Please return to your seats and keep your seat belts fastened.
Set over twenty hours on an inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney, Hostage is a pulse-pounding, claustrophobic, locked-room thriller. With themes of motherhood, morals, and activism this book is utterly electric and unputdownable.
Hostage is told from alternating points of view between Mina and Adam with perspectives from other passengers interspersed. By getting deep into her characters' psyches, Mackintosh brilliantly executes her latest thriller. The incredible character development and passenger-centric chapters are what elevates the novel—this extra insight into the passengers is utterly captivating.
This book is a union of a locked-room mystery and action thriller sprinkled with a bit of domestic noir. Hostage is an absolute blockbuster that delivers on so many levels. The fear of the passengers is palpable and the twists are believable with one exception—the motivation for the highjacking is completely contrived. But Mackintosh makes up for it with the explosive and shocking Epilogue. Highly recommend.
CLARE MACKINTOSH is the New York Times and #1 international bestselling author of I Let You Go, I See You, Let Me Lie, and After the End. Her books have been translated into more than thirty-five languages and have sold more than two million copies worldwide.
She lives in North Wales with her husband and their three children.
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