Now would have been the time to radio ground control—but John, who loved to get himself into near-death situations, did not. Was he that sure he could get himself and Carolyn and Lauren out of it? Or was there a part of him, subconscious or not, that didn’t care if he died, taking his wife and sister-in-law with him? His magazine was on the verge of collapse. His marriage was failing. His sister, upset that John was trying to stop her from auctioning off their mother’s possessions—Jackie’s deathbed suggestion—was now barely talking to him.
