Falling

Six hours after takeoff from Los Angeles, Captain Bill Hoffman receives a photo on his phone: his wife and children bound at home, guarded by a man in an explosive vest. The demand is simple and monstrous. Thirty-five thousand feet up, with a plane full of passengers and crew in his care, Bill has been given a choice — crash the aircraft and murder everyone aboard, or watch his family die.

Written by a former flight attendant, Falling unfolds in near real time across a single transcontinental flight, cutting between the cockpit, the cabin, and the hostage situation on the ground as Bill, his crew, and the authorities race an impossible countdown. Every option is unthinkable; every minute narrows the odds.

A breakneck, claustrophobic thriller that debuted near the top of the bestseller lists, Falling turns an ordinary flight into a taut moral trap where saving the people you love may cost the lives of everyone else.