Mayday

By: Nelson DeMille, Thomas Block

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet. The flight crew is crippled or dead. Now, defying both nature and man, three survivors must achieve the impossible. Land the plane. From master storyteller Nelson DeMille and master pilot Thomas Block comes Maydaythe classic bestseller that packs a supersonic shock at every turn of the page . . . the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller ever. Like a growing tidal wave, the escaping air was gathering momentum.
A teenaged girl in aisle 18, seat D, near the port-side aisle, her seat dislocated by the original impact, suddenly found herself gripping her seat track on the floor, her overturned seat still strapped to her body. The seatbelt failed and the seat shot down the aisle. She lost her grip and was dragged after it. Her eyes were filled with horror as she dug her nails into the carpet, as the racing air pulled her toward the yawning hole that led outside. Her cries were unheard by even those passengers who sat barely inches away from her struggle. The noise of the escaping air was so loud that it was no longer decipherable as sound, but seemed instead a solid thing pounding at the people in their seats . . .©1979, 1998 by Thomas H. Block and Nelson DeMille, All Rights Reserved; (P) and ©1998 Time Warner AudioBooks, A Division of Time Warner Trade Publishing

You'll keep thinking about it long after finishing

Absolutely amazing, thought provoking and chillingly real. An updated version of a timeless novel by one of the great authors of this century! The book starts quickly and keeps going and going!

Not one of his best.

The dialogue is just not the best. Maybe it was the reader, but he has been good in other books. The drama portrayed in the book is just too much, too sappy, by so many of the characters. And it goes on for far too long, which had me use the 30 sec fast forward often.

It is pretty obvious what is going to happen early on in the book after the incident and this creates an agonizing trip through unnecessary words.

What is also tiring is the unnecessary use of foul language. I think it would have been better to just describe the faces rather than subject the reader to the unnecessary gratuitous language.

Good story

If you could sum up Mayday in three words, what would they be?

Maibe this can happen, I dont know, but its entertaining, good suspence.
Well worth a read

classic De Mille

Scott was gr8 as always, content was good but at times a little harried. I enjoyed it very much.

A great book!

This is a great book! Could not put it down. Well balanced plots and developed characters…all that we expect from Mr. DeMille. But he really tightens the screws on what’s happening and what might happen next! Regarding the advice to not read it while on a flight? Ignore that at your peril! LOL By the way, Scott Brick is excellent, as always. I could listen to him read me the phone book. ;-)