by T.J. Newman
SYNOPSIS
Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors - but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside.
More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives.
Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent - Shannon’s mother and Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife - who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff.
There’s not much time.
There’s even less air.
With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family’s desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them - against impossible odds.
REVIEW
As Will and his daughter Shannon board Flight 1421, his only thoughts are with getting his daughter to camp safely before returning home. Only six minutes into the flight, everything changes as catastrophic failures cause the pilot to ditch the plane and it crashes into the Pacific. For most of the crew and passengers onboard, they are elated to have survived but unfortunately Will (who works as an engineer) has the foresight to know that their problems have only just begun. With water rising fast and explosions outside ruining their chances of escaping on the rafts, they have only a few hours to get to safety.
Drowning could rival any major blockbuster action thriller, but then I was expecting that from the blurb and from the reviews of the author's previous book Falling. What I was not expecting was for the story to be so emotional. This book just about broke me. It was chilling and heartbreaking on so many levels, but especially for someone who isn't a keen flyer at the best of times, and also as a mother. The thought of things playing out as they did for these characters was too terrible to think about.
The funny thing is, from a technical point of view I have NO idea if any of the things that happened in the story are feasible - but I still believed every part of it. I was right with them every step of the way and it felt totally real to me. It was incredibly dramatic, incredibly stressful and I raced through the story faster than any other book I can remember. I literally picked it up to start reading for the tour, and the next thing I knew I was almost at the end. Believe me, you will not be able to put this book down!
If you are looking for a non-stop thriller that will have your heart racing and breaking at the same time, then this is the book for you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
T. J. Newman is a former bookseller and flight attendant whose first novel Falling became a publishing sensation and debuted at number two on the New York Times bestseller list. The book was named a best book of the year by USA TODAY and Esquire, among many others, and has been published in over thirty countries. The book will soon be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures. T. J. lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Drowning is her second novel.
Thanks to Anne Cater @RandomTTours Simon Schuster @simonschusterUK and T.J. Newman @tj_author for the opportunity to read and review.
Genre: Thriller / Action Thriller
Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
ISBN: 978-1398507661
Pages: 320pp
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