Agent: Jane Gelfman, Gelfman Schneider/ICM Partners (Mar. The Flight Attendant is the ultimate airplane book, and not just because of its name: entertaining and filled with inside info on the less glamorous aspect of flight crew’s lives, it may. Then, with about 50 pages to go it’s as though the bell has rung for the final lap, with the author unceremoniously detonating a plot bombshell that triggers the frenetic, exciting, but not especially convincing sprint to the finish.
Bohjalian’s less successful in avoiding clichés or in making an espionage subplot plausible. It’s a killer set-up, and Bohjalian ( The Sleepwalker) initially maximizes the dual plot lines: Cassie, flying on primal survival instinct, tries to stonewall investigators, testing the truth of the maxim that God looks out for fools and drunkards hit woman Elena methodically closes in for the kill. Even worse for Cassie, the assassin who executed him already regrets sparing the passed-out flight attendant. From the New York Times best-selling author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant. Blackout drunk Cassie Bowden is used to waking up in strangers’ beds, but what she discovers one morning in a sumptuous Dubai hotel suite is instantly sobering-blood-soaked sheets and the dead body of the handsome American hedge fund manager she met on her flight over. THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT Chris Bohjalian From the author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man and no idea what happened.
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