![]() One of the crew of the world-famous London to Sydney flight is a cabin crew attendant named Mina. With a passenger list encompassing of flight crew, journalists and celebrities on board this notable flight, everyone’s eyes are peeled on this aircraft. The inaugural first voyage of a long-haul direct flight from London to Sydney plays out for the reader in Hostage by British author Clare Mackintosh. I was completed hooked from start to finish. Hostage heralds a successful return to the psychological thriller genre for author Clare Mackintosh. With a long flight in her mind, along with a locked room style murder mystery, Hostage was born. The initial idea for Clare Mackintosh’s Hostage started with a notebook with a handful of phrases such as flight attendant, hijack threat, save the child or save the plane? After putting these ideas onto paper, Clare Mackintosh read an article about the first direct flight from London to Sydney. Someone who needs Mina’s assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply.Ī lot can happen in twenty hours. Or the cataclysmic problems in her marriage.īut the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. She’s trying to focus on the task in hand, and not worry about her troubled five-year-old daughter back at home with her husband. Mina is one of a hand-picked team of flight attendants chosen for the landmark journey. Numerous celebrities are rumoured to be among the passengers in business class and journalists will be waiting on the ground to greet the plane. The atmosphere on board the inaugural non-stop flight from London to Sydney is electric. ‘FEELS LIKE A BLOCKBUSTER MOVIE’ LISA JEWELL You can save hundreds of lives. ‘A NAIL-BITER OF A THRILLER’ SHARI LAPENA Genres: Fiction, Contemporary, Suspense, Thrillerīestselling author and international sensation, Clare Mackintosh, brings her showstopping quality to this modern take on the classic locked-room thriller
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