![]() While the rescue team works to figure out who crashed the plane, Scott struggles to get his bearings-no small feat when wealthy socialite Layla Mueller is trying hard to get him into bed and when O’Reilly-like anchorman Bill Cunningham is harassing him for an interview. Flashbacks trace the back story of each doomed passenger: network head David Bateman and his wife, Maggie, who may have had a thing for Scott financier Ben Kipling, about to be tried for laundering terrorist money flight attendant Emma Lightner, who recently jilted co-pilot Charlie Busch. ![]() ![]() From there, the book is part whodunit and part study of Scott’s survivor’s guilt. In a well-turned rescue sequence, Scott braves the waves and sharks and makes dry land with JJ on his back. ![]() In the latest by TV writer and novelist Hawley ( The Good Father, 2012, etc.), a struggling artist becomes a hero twice-first by saving a young boy’s life, then by outsmarting the anchor of a Fox-like conservative TV network.Ī small charter plane mysteriously crashes into the water off Martha’s Vineyard, leaving only two survivors: the painter Scott Burroughs and JJ, the young son of the network owner who chartered the flight. ![]()
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