What do you think?
Rate this book
Random Track
The world awaits the completion of the historic inaugural flight between the United States and China - and the American President awiats the safe arrival of the sensitive cargo he has secreted aboard. If it is successful it will be a diplomatic coup. If it fails it will be an international disaster.
But Century Airlines Flight 101 is a doomed ship. And in her luxury cabin, where the Vice President and the new amdassador sip their champagne, the excitement and anxiety, the personal tensions and disputes, the professional jealousies and the private loves are soon to give way to terror as a VIP flight turns into a nightmare journey with no way out but a desperate ditch into the depths of the Pacific.
But Century Airlines Flight 101 is a doomed ship. And in her luxury cabin, where the Vice President and the new amdassador sip their champagne, the excitement and anxiety, the personal tensions and disputes, the professional jealousies and the private loves are soon to give way to terror as a VIP flight turns into a nightmare journey with no way out but a desperate ditch into the depths of the Pacific.
256 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1981
5 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
April 28, 2022
Es medio tedioso al inicio pero después remonta muy bien. Me encantó
November 5, 2014
This was a random book that I picked up from my Mum's bookshelves when staying with her for a while.
And it's ok. I think it's very much a book of the cold war - there is one plot point that seems utterly inconceivable now but was possibly quite probable in 1980. I'm just not sure that a President would risk the life of everyone aboard - including his own vice president - to prevent the Russians from knowing about a vaccine.
The other reason that this book got such an average score is the end. It's all too easy and convenient and there's no mess or death. If a movie were made, the ending would have to be changed so that the madcap idea that they got away with in the book would have to go tragically wrong (perhaps at the hands of the Captain who thought it was a crazy idea anyway) to give it a proper ending. Because, given the nature and level of risk in the book, the "everyone lives happily ever after" denouement (which this pretty much is) just doesn't cut it.
And it's ok. I think it's very much a book of the cold war - there is one plot point that seems utterly inconceivable now but was possibly quite probable in 1980. I'm just not sure that a President would risk the life of everyone aboard - including his own vice president - to prevent the Russians from knowing about a vaccine.
The other reason that this book got such an average score is the end. It's all too easy and convenient and there's no mess or death. If a movie were made, the ending would have to be changed so that the madcap idea that they got away with in the book would have to go tragically wrong (perhaps at the hands of the Captain who thought it was a crazy idea anyway) to give it a proper ending. Because, given the nature and level of risk in the book, the "everyone lives happily ever after" denouement (which this pretty much is) just doesn't cut it.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews