Simona's Corner of Dreams: Accidental Heroes

Tuesday, 3 September 2019

Accidental Heroes – by Danielle Steel

The blurb:

On a beautiful May morning at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco—one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous—perhaps ominous—message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, still grappling with guilt after a disastrous operation in which hostages were killed, Ben too becomes suspicious. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean?

As Ben scans the passenger manifests, his focus turns to the A321, with Helen Smith as its senior pilot. Helen’s military service and her tenure with the airline have been exemplary. But her husband’s savage death in Iraq was more than anyone should bear, leaving her widowed with three children. A major film star is on board. So is an off-duty pilot who has just lost his forty-year career. So is a distraught father, traveling with the baby son he has abducted from his estranged wife. Sifting through data and relying on instinct, Ben becomes convinced that someone on Helen’s plane is planning something terrible. And he’s right. Passengers, crew, and experts on the ground become heroes out of necessity to try to avert tragedy at the eleventh hour.

In her stunning novel, Danielle Steel combines intense action with stories of emotionally rich, intertwined lives. As the jet bears down on its destination of San Francisco, strangers are united, desperate choices are made, and futures will be changed forever by a handful of accidental heroes.

My Opinion:

In all my years as a book blogger, I never read a Danielle Steel book. My mum loves her books and always recommends them to me, so I started reading this one!

It’s a about a plane flying from New York to San Francisco and they are afraid somebody is going to crash it. The book tells the story of different people: Bernice, a woman, who finds a postcard with an ominous message or Ben, who is dealing with the problems from the ground, all the passengers, the pilot etc. It means getting to know a lot of people and their lives, which is a lot in the beginning, but once you know them, it gets really interesting. All these characters play a key role in this story, so they need to be talked about.

I was hooked from the beginning, it gets very intense at some point and I just couldn’t stop reading, because I needed to know what happens. The author’s style is very gripping, exciting, mysterious and intense. I felt like watching a movie, it all seemed so real. The writing is very descriptive and full of details.

I have never read a book like this and really enjoyed it. I have definitely become a Danielle Steel fan and look forward to reading more stories written by her.

I also liked, how the story continued after all seemed over.

GREAT!

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