John J Nance

Pandora's Clock John J Nance

Publisher Marketing: Captain James Holland is the pilot on a routine flight from Frankfurt to New York, packed with people eager to be home for Christmas. When a passenger collapses from what appears to be a heart attack, Holland is forced to request an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. But to his great surprise, the air traffic controllers will not let him land in England they tell Holland that his sick passenger has contracted a dangerous new form of influenza and that the plane must return to Germany. But when German officials also refuse the landing, and other European countries follow suit, Holland begins to suspect that he's in much more trouble than anyone's letting on. In fact, his sick passenger is carrying a deadly virus accidentally released from a Bavarian laboratory, and it is feared that everyone on board is now infected. At the same time, someone with access to the CIA's computers wants to shoot the plane out of the sky, and there is a United States ambassador on board with powerful terrorist enemies who want to see him dead. While the panic on the ground spreads from the White House Situation Room to a small airport in the Ukrainian Republic, Captain Holland has only one concern: Where and when can he land?" Review Citations: Booklist 07/01/1995 pg. 1836 (EAN 9780385479448, Hardcover) Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/01/1995 pg. 90 (EAN 9780385479448, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 05/29/1995 pg. 65 (EAN 9780385479448, Hardcover) Kirkus Reviews 07/01/1995 pg. 889 (EAN 9780385479448, Hardcover) ALA Recmd for Reluctant YA's 01/01/1997 pg. 1310 (EAN 9780385479448, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/1996 pg. 57 (EAN 9780385479448, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2010 pg. 646 (EAN 9780385479448, Hardcover) Wilson Fiction Catalog 01/01/2014 pg. 758 (EAN 9780385479448, Hardcover) Publishers Weekly 10/21/1996 (EAN 9780312960346, Mass Market Paperbound) Contributor Bio:  Nance, John J "John J. Nance, " aviation analyst for ABC News and a familiar face on "Good Morning America, " is the author of seventeen books, including "Fire Flight, Skyhook, Turbulence, " and "Headwind." Two of his novels, "Pandora's Clock" and "Medusa's Child, " have been made into highly successful television miniseries. A lieutenant colonel in the U. S. Air Force Reserve, Nance is a decorated pilot veteran of Vietnam and Operations Desert Storm/Desert Shield. He lives in University Place, Washington.