Mayday

By: Nelson DeMille, Thomas Block

Narrated by: Scott Brick

Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins

Publisher's summary

Twelve miles above the Pacific Ocean, a missile strikes a jumbo passenger jet and leaves the flight crew either crippled or dead. This is the story of how three survivors must achieve the impossible and land the plane. Master storyteller Nelson DeMille and veteran pilot Thomas Block collaborated on Mayday, the most terrifyingly realistic air disaster thriller of all time.

©1979, 1998 by Thomas H. Block and Nelson DeMille, All Rights Reserved (P)16 9; 1998 Time Warner AudioBooks, A Division of Time Warner Trade Publishing

Critic reviews

"Strong and electric!" (Washington Post)
"Truly horrific...delicious terror. Mayday is a novel for the true connoisseur of disaster novels." (The New York Times Book Review)

intriguing

This is a great book! Could cut the suspense with a knife. Great time passer.

BEST DEMILLE BOOK EVER!!!!

This book grabs you from the 1st sentence to the very last sentence!!! I simply couldn't put it down & stayed up all night listening to it. ABSOLUTELY RECOMMEND TO OTHERS

grit your teeth!

this was high drama, high suspense, great writing. the nearly perfect airplane suspense story. wow

Just as Good the Second Listen

This one rates to very biased thumbs up from me. Biased because Nelson DeMille is my favorite author. I have listened to each of Nelson's works at least two times. I finally got back to this novel after 5 years and enjoyed it as much and more this time. Please give it a try. It is not your average airline disaster story.

Incredible

The story and reading kept me fully engaged and wanting more. I truly loved the book and recommend without any reservations. You’re going really enjoy this book.

Long book that I couldn’t put down

It had an intriguing story line with character development. Scott Brick’s performance made the story entertaining but very intense. Every chapter seemed to bring a new twist.

This is a keeper

Nelson Demille (ER.al. never disappoints. Always riveting and thoroughly enjoyable. Also, if Scott Brick is not the best narrator on the planet, then I’d like to know who is. None better.

Makes a disaster fun.

Although the story has quite a bit of gratuitous grossnesses (?) with unbelievable events and plot twists, that's what makes it fun. I couldn't stop listening as I had to know what kind of trouble these folks would get into next. The narrator is kind of stiff, but I think we're all getting spoiled by Scott Brick. If you can put Mr Brick out of your mind, Mr Prichard isn't too bad.

If you aren't obsessed with accurate details and logical plot, but just what a good nail biter, then this is the book for you. Otherwise, read Up Country.

Never been scared to fly....TILL NOW

I could not put this book down!

I have to admit, the first 30 minutes are a bit slow, but necessary in setting up the characters. But then...the book takes off. I wish I hadn't started Mayday late in the day, as I did not want to stop listening. At 3AM, I finally forced myself to stop listening, and at least get a few hours sleep!

Scott Brick, as usual does an excellent job narrating.

One of DeMille's Best!

Although most here have given praise to this recording of "Mayday" I'm very surprised to find quite a few people seem to dislike the narration of Michael Prichard. Mr. Prichard, in my opinion, is one of the very best voices in audio books and a long-time favorite of mine. I also enjoy the work of Scott Brick who does many of Nelson DeMille's novels but consider Mr. Prichard the Dean of Audiobook narration. In regards to "Mayday" I have read this novel several times and believe it is an exciting and fun read from beginning to end. I hope you enjoy it as much as I have and will again!