Blog Tour: THE PILOT'S DAUGHTER by Audrey J. Cole

 

The Pilot's Daughter

by Audrey J. Cole

 

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GENRE: Thriller

 

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BLURB:

 

Welcome aboard Pacific Air Flight 385, with nonstop service from Seattle to Honolulu.

 

Cora is scared to fly again after her husband died in a recent helicopter crash in Pago Pago.

 

A thousand times she has told herself to turn around, not get on the flight, go back to her young children.

 

But now, she’s seated in first class across the aisle from the girlfriend of a famous billionaire pharmaceutical entrepreneur.

 

Halfway across the Pacific, the flight is hijacked. Six people are dead—including the pilots.

 

Cora is a young widow, mother, and emergency room nurse...but as the world closes in around her, she’s also a pilot’s daughter.

 

Lost off radar in the middle of the vast Pacific Ocean, the motive behind the hijacking remains a mystery. Not knowing who to trust, Cora works with the man seated beside her, Seattle Homicide Detective Kyle Adams, to save herself along with the remaining one hundred and fifty-four souls on board.

 

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Excerpt Two:

 

Oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling above each row.

 

“What’s going on?” Alana heard someone yell from behind her.

 

Alana threw her phone onto the seat next to her and pulled on her mask.

 

She turned around. The three men behind her were all in their seats, pulling on their masks. In the main cabin, passengers rushed to their seats. Alana watched a mother put a mask over her little boy, which brought tears to her eyes.

 

Linda stood in the middle of the main cabin, calling out to passengers to put on their oxygen masks. Alana watched her don a spare mask from one of the rows before she helped a passenger secure their mask. Once the aisle was clear, Linda moved slowly up the cabin, taking a breath from a spare mask that hung from each row as she went.

 

Alana faced forward. She reached for her seatbelt when she noticed the older woman in front of her struggling to get her mask on. She could see the woman’s frail hands above her seat. They were shaking as she tried to pull the strap over her head.

 

Alana stood up and leaned over the seat to help the woman secure her mask. The woman patted her hand as if to say thank you before Alana sat down and buckled her seatbelt.

 

When Linda reached first class, she paused beside Alana’s seat to take a few breaths from the spare mask that hung above her row.

 

“Why aren’t we descending?” the corporal yelled from the row behind her.

 

No one had an answer.

 

Linda moved to the front of the cabin. She pulled on a mask from the first row while she opened the overhead compartment. The first-class passengers watched her withdraw an army-green oxygen bottle. Linda switched her mask to the one attached to the tank and used the shoulder strap to sling the bottle behind her back.

 

Alana stared out the window at the vast ocean below. Something was terribly wrong. And she wasn’t ready to die.

 

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My review: A typical flight turns into a hijacking nightmare in this dramatic tale. The story takes a slow lift-off, giving readers the view of several passengers before a gunman hijacks the plane around chapter 14.

The writing was pretty good, enriched with a descriptive narrative that sets the tone well. Tensions run high throughout this complex and lengthy story. The author does a fairly good job at keeping the reader on edge. Overall, a pretty good read for thriller fans.

 

My rating: 3 stars

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

Audrey J. Cole is a registered nurse and a USA TODAY bestselling thriller author. She resides in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two children.

 

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You can also visit her website: www.AUDREYJCOLE.com

 

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