Crash Land
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
An adrenaline-charged thriller from the Kindle-bestselling author of Gone Again and Hit and Run.
'An unnerving tale of what happens to ordinary lives when the wheels come off.' VAL MCDERMID
'A haunting, unforgettable page-turner that ticks every excellence box in crime writing.' ALANNA KNIGHT
Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off Orkney. But then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce, stepping in to save her from some unwanted attention, and his life is changed forever.
Set against the brutal, unforgiving landscape of Orkney, CRASH LAND is a psychological thriller steeped in guilt, shame, lust, deception and murder.
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Finn Sullivan, the na ve hero of this flawed thriller from Johnstone (The Jump), is waiting to board the last commercial flight from the Scottish island of Orkney to Edinburgh before Christmas when he notices a brutish oil worker harassing the alluring Maddie Pierce. Maddie breaks away from the guy, strides up to Finn, who's standing at the airport bar, and asks him to buy her a drink. Finn obliges, and the two share several drinks while their flight remains fog-bound. After the plane takes off, the oil worker assaults Finn and Maddie, causing the pilot to fly back to Orkney. There, mayhem and murder ensue. One cop thinks Finn is the "lad responsible for the biggest death toll on Orkney since the Vikings." Johnstone vividly describes the island's stormy and dangerous landscape, but most of the problems and deaths might have been avoided if on the plane either Finn or Maddie had sought the help of the flight attendant when the oil worker's behavior turned ugly.
