TY - BOOK AU - McGuire,Michael TI - Flight risk SN - 1760632880 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2019/// CY - Crows Nest, NSW PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Air pilots KW - fast KW - Aircraft accidents KW - Investigation KW - Australian fiction KW - Air pilots - Fiction KW - Suspense fiction KW - Fiction KW - Spy stories KW - Aircraft accidents - Investigation - Fiction KW - Hijacking of aircraft KW - Terrorism KW - Australian KW - Thrillers (fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - Thriller fiction KW - gsafd KW - Action and adventure fiction KW - Adult fiction KW - Print N1 - Tertiary/Undergraduate; General N2 - Disgraced former pilot Ted Anderson works for a top-secret government organisation set up to investigate terror-related incidents. Sent to Jakarta to find out as much as he can about the pilot of a vanished Garuda flight, he discovers a flight simulator in the pilot's apartment. When the investigation turns sour, Ted escapes to New York as further disaster strikes. Another plane disappears from the sky. Then another. Three planes and hundreds of passengers and crew, vanished, without a trace. Panic is widespread and the world is teetering on the brink. Still no one has come forward to claim responsibility. At an eerily deserted JFK airport trying to get a flight back home, Ted witnesses a suspicious exchange between an airport cleaner and a nonchalant airline pilot. He follows the pilot to his destination: a Ukraine International Airlines flight, due to leave in an hour. All his instincts tell Ted that this is the next plane to go down. But what on earth can he do? Take the flight and face almost certain death? Or fly back home and wait for the news headlines? He does the unthinkable and gets on the plane ER -