Hostage

Mina is a flight attendant on World Airways Flight 79, the first-ever non-stop service from London to Sydney, a twenty-hour journey drawing global attention. She's swapped onto the crew partly to escape her unraveling marriage to detective Adam and the strain around their young daughter, Sophia. Then, shortly after takeoff, a passenger slips her a note: comply with our instructions, or your daughter dies.

On the ground, Sophia and Adam are already in danger. In the air, over the course of a claustrophobic long-haul flight, paranoia spreads, passengers begin to die, and Mina is forced toward an impossible choice, protect the innocent people on board, or sacrifice them to save her own child. Told from shifting perspectives and counting down hour by hour, Clare Mackintosh's locked-room thriller turns a sealed cabin into a pressure cooker of fear, guilt, and impossible loyalty.