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Accidental Heroes
- Narrated by: Jim Frangione
- Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
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Summary
A decorated former air force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel's gripping new novel - a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco.
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 40 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 11th 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.
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- Harries mom
- 03-03-24
gripping stuff
This seemed totally different to the few D.S books I've listened to but was well worth it. Edge of your seat drama give it a go, you won't be disappointed.
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- Paula Puddephatt
- 25-02-24
Entertaining story
I really enjoyed this audiobook. The characters were great, and the story was entertaining. Excellent narrator.
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- Sandra A.Lambe
- 28-04-18
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I thoroughly enjoyed this book and so happy almost everyone survived what amazing people they were
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- Joan
- 09-04-18
A Page Turner.
One of her better offerings for a while and very satisfying for hardcore DS fans.
Great characters with solid plot line and lots of inspirational moments.
The narrator was excellent which was a bonus.
I really enjoyed this audiobook and it’s bound to stay with me now that I’ve finished it.
Danielle Steel at her best. Take a bow.
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- Simon
- 20-03-18
A Romantic Notion Does Not A Thriller Make!
Danielle Steel has done something quite out of the ordinary. She had a very interesting romantic notion about people becoming accidental heroes and tried making a thriller out of it. So did this best-selling author of romantic fiction and chick-lit succeed in turning it into a genuine suspense thriller as it is currently listed?
No.
This has to be the sappiest, most sugar-ladenly naive entry in the genre I have ever come across. I feel like I have put on several pounds in weight just listening to it and both my ears feel like they have developed paunches. I had to give up an hour and a half from the end and that was at least half an hour after the main action had unfolded!
Now, it may be that Steel's fans from her other books might enjoy this as an interesting diversion from her normal output, I couldn't say. However, regular fans of the thriller genre are unlikely to find a book that they can appreciate. The characters are more caricature than three-dimensional and the action scenes are just poorly thought out and show rather unforgivable levels of naivete. If any of you make it through that ending then message me on Goodreads and I'll buy you a beer, wine or other beverage according to your tastes. I've never read anything more sickly or full of cliches in my entire life.
Sorry Danielle, and of course her fans, I am sure that your success in other genres is deserved but you simply aren't a thriller writer.
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