An Airline Pilots Read

[Kip Powick]

You may remember this author......he wrote "MayDay" and it was turned into a CBS movie. He is a retired US Air Captain...a good read and available as an E-Book as well.

Edit.....just found he has a website and there is a sub menu for other aviation books he has written http://www.flyingb-ranch.com/

Thomas Block's NEWEST NOVEL, RELEASED MARCH, 2012 is immediately available in a high-quality paper (6" by 9" Trade Paperback) edition. Go to Amazon.com and select the Trade Paperback version of Thomas Block's 'Captain'. The trade paperback edition is also available through all major bookstores, book distributors and Barnesandnoble.com.

'Captain' is his most ambitious, intricate and action-packed aviation tale yet . It is a chilling and all-too-real story about a routine Trans-Atlantic airline flight that suddenly turns absolutely insane. In the doomed airliner's 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 survival. 'Captain' 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 them.

'Captain' is a novel that pits man against man while also pitting man against machine. It is a story about the need for human judgments, hard-learned 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 norm.

'Captain' is about the way real airline pilots think, feel and react, especially after those giant airliners that they've strapped themselves to have suddenly turned vicious and unpredictable.

Author Nelson DeMille says: "After a long hiatus from writing, Captain Block rejoins the ranks of legendary pilots-turned-novelists such as Ernest K. Gann ('The High and the Mighty') and brings us 'Captain' - one of the best aviation/adventure thrillers you will ever read."

"'Captain' 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 heart-pounding Trans-Atlantic flight since Charles Lindbergh's solo. Or will it turn out to be Amelia Earhart's tragic Pacific crossing?"

"'Captain' 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.