Drowning (Unabridged)
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3.5 • 22 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman - whose first book Falling was an instant international bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021 - returns for her second book, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean, and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside, and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them.
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.
Praise for Drowning:
'Stunning, emotional, and unforgettable. Drowning reads like Apollo 13 underwater' Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire and The Border
'Drowning is The Poseidon Adventure meets The Martian. It is another can’t-put-down, edge-of-your-seat thriller from T. J. Newman, one of our most exciting new authors' Adrian McKinty, New York Times bestselling author of The Chain and The Island
'Drowning is pure adrenaline and all heart. Gripping, relentless, effortlessly assured, T. J. Newman’s thriller is tense and moving. You’ll be grabbed from page one as the crew and passengers of a downed airliner fight for survival and rescuers race to reach them. Drowning is an incredible ride - strap in, brace, and remember to breathe' Meg Gardiner, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Customer Reviews
*Riveting*
**4.5 Stars**
Firstly, I have never been attracted to books like this but reading some of the reviews I decided to dive in, it was riveting.
This is essentially about Will & Chris Kent. After a tragic accident they both drift apart and eventually separate. Their daughter Shannon wants to go on a trip, Will does not agree and is trapped in his grief. The compromise is that he goes with her as her companion.
Well, minutes after take off their flight crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Things become dire as an engine explosion causes flooding in the plane.
There are survivors and casualties. Will is an engineer and Chris is a professional diver. She is in the middle of a work assignment with her diving team, when she see a lot of activity, when she finds out it’s the very flight her daughter & ex-husband to be are in she does not immediately confirm her name as she wants to assist. This is a delicate operation where one wrong move means more loss of life.
Chris says she has a plan, the rescue experts are reluctant as her plan is not tested, whilst they exhaust their plans, it soon becomes clear that the rescue experts are out of options and Chris has her work cut with her plan. This is a dangerous mission, with high stakes can Chris pull it off? ….
1970’s Disaster Movie…nothing new here.
Review title say’s it all. As a side note I personally find the female narrators voice and delivery extremely irritating - everything sounds sad and pathetic. If I’d have know she was one of the narrators I would not have purchased the audio version, but only Steven Weber was listed on iTunes.