John J Nance
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"High above the Rocky Mountains, a routine airline flight becomes a midair standoff as 130 passengers listen to their captain relate the unprecedented demands of an unseen hijacker. Federal and state officials must hunt down, arrest, and indict the murderer of a young girl, and do it all in eight hours - or the airplane will be blown out of the sky."--BOOK JACKET. "With the airline in confusion, the media pursuing, and the hijacker forcing the aircraft...
2) Turbulence
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A forced emergency landing in a small wartorn country plunges passengers into mortal danger.
Author
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
After the Gulf War, two air force pilots race to stop an outbreak of germ warfare in this stunningly authentic thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance, a decorated air force pilot who served in Operation Desert Storm A scientist charged by Saddam Hussein with pioneering a horrific breakthrough in biological warfare defects at the American embassy to warn the world of the new weapon. America's worst nightmare has come true and...
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Description
A female investment banker starts up a visionary airline, taking on Wall Street, the airline industry, and an international terrorist syndicate in this electrifying thriller from New York Times–bestselling author John J. Nance The bed is so comfortable that Elizabeth Sterling sleeps through her alarm, high above the Pacific, reveling in the comforts of the most luxurious airliner ever built. It's the flagship of the newly revived Pan Am, the most...
6) Orbit
Author
Description
A passenger on a 2009 space flight, Kip Dawson faces death after a micrometeorite damages the capsule and kills the pilot, and types his epitaph on the ship's computer, unaware that his writings are being read on the Internet by a horrified public.
7) Blackout
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Oxford in 2060 is a chaotic place. Scores of time-traveling historians are being sent into the past, to destinations including the American Civil War and the attack on the World Trade Center. Michael Davies is prepping to go to Pearl Harbor. Merope Ward is coping with a bunch of bratty 1940 evacuees and trying to talk her thesis adviser, Mr. Dunworthy, into letting her go to VE Day. Polly Churchill's next assignment will be as a shopgirl in the middle...
9) Skyhook
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A top-secret computer program is on the verge of going live-but could wreak havoc on the nation's airlines.
10) Medusa's child
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Description
As a Boeing 727 circles over Washington awaiting to land, the pilot discovers he is carrying a nuclear bomb set to explode shortly. The bomb was brought on board by the wife of a defense scientist with a grudge against the government. She thought she was transporting a scientific instrument. The novel describes the drama that follows as the pilot flies out to sea. By the author of Pandora's Clock.
11) Pandora's Clock
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Description
An airliner whose passengers have been infected with a deadly virus is ordered to land in the Sahara to be quarantined. As everyone on board will die anyway, the CIA decides to exploit the situation by shooting it down and blaming Arabs. In the air battle that follows Capt. James Holland, the pilot of the Boeing 747, shows what he is made of.
12) Saving Cascadia
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
A seismologist's warnings that a Pacific island targeted for resort development will be destroyed in an earthquake are disregarded in the wake of an ambitious builder's plans to make millions through a new casino and hotel.
.png)