If you’re looking for an adventure to keeps you on the edge of your seat, this is the book for you. T. J. Newman, a former flight attendant, proves she knows her stuff by writing a fast-paced novel about doomed commercial flight 1421 and the desperate efforts of the various rescue teams up top to save the passengers.
Soon after takeoff from Hawaii, flight 1421 loses an engine and all power, crashing into the ocean, and sinking to the bottom with 12 passengers aboard. They find themselves 200 feet below the surface, waist-deep in water, and with 6.5 hours of air remaining. Two of the trapped passengers, Shannon and Will Kent, are the daughter and soon to be ex-husband of the head of one of the aforementioned dive teams.
Up on the surface, Chris Kent is
desperate to save her family. There is no procedure for a rescue like this;
there has never been a need for one. There is however a proven method for rescuing
sailors from a sunken submarine, but the one-of-a-kind vessel used for the
rescue is waiting for a replacement part. Chris, the leader of an elite dive
team and a civilian has a plan to adapt the vessel to use with the plane, but
the Navy and the Coast Guard will only agree to her plan as a last-ditch effort.
Will, an engineer by trade and first
officer, now caption, Kit Callahan work together to keep the passengers safe
while waiting for their rescue. Will knows that Chris’ plan will work and all three
must work together to bring Chris’ plan to reality.
The book is emotional and tense
from the beginning but Newman ups the ante in the last couple of chapters. For
those of you of a certain age, the story is reminiscent of 1970’s disaster
movies. I felt like I was right there with all the characters both on the plane
and above. I highly recommend the read.
Warner Brothers has purchased the
movie rights to Drowning and release is planned for 2024. The movie
adaptation of Newman’s first novel, Falling, was released in 2021.
4.2 stars on Goodreads, 4.5 on
Amazon
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