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Hardback. Condition: Good. High above the Rocky Mountains, a routine airline flight becomes a midair standoff as 130 passengers listen to their captain relate the unprecedented demands of an unseen hijackerFederal and state officials must hunt down, arrest, and indict the murderer of a young girl, and do it all in eight hours--or the airplane will be blown out of the skyWith the airline in confusion, the media pursuing, and the hijacker forcing the aircraft into wild maneuvers as they head toward Salt Lake City, the FBI reluctantly fields its closest hostage negotiator, a rookie female agent and psychologist named Katherine BronskyImmediately, Bronsky finds herself sucked into the vortex of an impossible war of wills between a volatile, unstable hijacker holding the trigger to a bomb and stonewalling Justice Department officials who have no real intention of meeting the lone gunman's demandsWhen the hijacker suddenly refuses to land at Salt Lake City, Kat commandeers a business jet and races after the low-flying 737As the jetliner runs low on fuel, she's stunned to discover that the man with the gun is none other than the murdered girl's father, and that one of his hostages is a front-runner to become the new Attorney General of the United StatesSuccessful at last in getting him to land in a remote Colorado airport, Bronsky's brave and desperate attempts to reason with the hijacker backfire, and she becomes a hostage herselfNow discounted and ignored by her superiors in Washington for losing control, Bronsky's only hope to save the passengers and crew of AirBridge Flight 90 is to solve the wrenching mystery of who killed an eleven-year-old girl in a dark Connecticut forest two years beforeAnd for that, all she has is an airborne phone and precious few hours before the bomb detonatesNance ratchets up the tension with expertly crafted twists and turns that converge into an unforgettably wrenching dilemmaBut one thing finally becomes clearThe only person who can safely land AirBridge Flight 90 and save its 130 passengers is dangerously close to deathAnd if the clock runs out, The Last Hostage will never see the light of day. …

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. Winner of the 2009 ACHE James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award This book is a tour de force, and no one but John Nance could have written it. Only he could have made sophisticated, scientifically disciplined instruction about the nature and roots of safety into a page-turner. Medical care has a ton yet to learn from the decades of progress that have brought aviation to unprecedented levels of safety, and, in instructing us all about those lessons, John Nance is not just a bridge-builder he is the bridge. --Donald M. Berwick, MD, MP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Winner of the 2009 ACHE James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award This book is a tour de force, and no one but John Nance could have written it. Only he could have made sophisticated, scientifically disciplined instruction about the nature and roots of safety into a page-turner. Medical care has a ton yet to learn from the decades of progress that have brought aviation to unprecedented levels of safety, and, in instructing us all about those lessons, John Nance is not just a bridge-builder he is the bridge. --Donald M. Berwick, MD, MP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Winner of the 2009 ACHE James A. Hamilton Book of the Year Award This book is a tour de force, and no one but John Nance could have written it. Only he could have made sophisticated, scientifically disciplined instruction about the nature and roots of safety into a page-turner. Medical care has a ton yet to learn from the decades of progress that have brought aviation to unprecedented levels of safety, and, in instructing us all about those lessons, John Nance is not just a bridge-builder he is the bridge. --Donald M. Berwick, MD, MP, President and CEO, Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI).…

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paperback. Condition: Fair.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

paperback. Condition: Fair.

Condition: good. Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly. …

Condition: Good. In the skies above Europe, a Boeing 737 jets toward an unknown destination. On board is John Harris--a fugitive from justice. Charged by an international accord of ordering the torture of hundreds of innocent people, he is the most wanted man in the world.   He is the former President of the United States.   The pilot, Captain Craig Dayton, realizes that a silent conspiracy against John Harris is taking shape, and that every moment the plane spends on the ground makes a target for his enemies--who have already condemned him for his crimes. Now, as both sides wage a war of words in the most powerful courts in the world, the only safe haven left is in the air.…

Condition: Good. Born to a serial killer, Jessica Shepard has devoted her life to tracking down men who destroy innocent lives. A survivor--and a loner--the hunt is her blood. She's an expert.   What does she want to forget? Then a man is found floating in San Francisco Bay--beaten to death with his flesh marked by a single cigarette burn. Jessica knows that this isn't a routine case, and that he's no ordinary victim. He's a man she once knew intimately. For one single lonely night. And he's not going to be the last of her lovers to die. Now, Jessica knows what no other cop does: the truth of what happened in the victims' final hours. There's just one problem--Jessica doesn't remember a thing. And what she doesn't remember could be the death of her. Now a major motion picture from Paramount.…

Condition: Very Good. Born to a serial killer, Jessica Shepard has devoted her life to tracking down men who destroy innocent lives. A survivor--and a loner--the hunt is her blood. She's an expert.   What does she want to forget? Then a man is found floating in San Francisco Bay--beaten to death with his flesh marked by a single cigarette burn. Jessica knows that this isn't a routine case, and that he's no ordinary victim. He's a man she once knew intimately. For one single lonely night. And he's not going to be the last of her lovers to die. Now, Jessica knows what no other cop does: the truth of what happened in the victims' final hours. There's just one problem--Jessica doesn't remember a thing. And what she doesn't remember could be the death of her. Now a major motion picture from Paramount.…

Condition: Very Good. In the skies above Europe, a Boeing 737 jets toward an unknown destination. On board is John Harris--a fugitive from justice. Charged by an international accord of ordering the torture of hundreds of innocent people, he is the most wanted man in the world.   He is the former President of the United States.   The pilot, Captain Craig Dayton, realizes that a silent conspiracy against John Harris is taking shape, and that every moment the plane spends on the ground makes a target for his enemies--who have already condemned him for his crimes. Now, as both sides wage a war of words in the most powerful courts in the world, the only safe haven left is in the air.…

Condition: Fair. In the skies above Europe, a Boeing 737 jets toward an unknown destination. On board is John Harris--a fugitive from justice. Charged by an international accord of ordering the torture of hundreds of innocent people, he is the most wanted man in the world.   He is the former President of the United States.   The pilot, Captain Craig Dayton, realizes that a silent conspiracy against John Harris is taking shape, and that every moment the plane spends on the ground makes a target for his enemies--who have already condemned him for his crimes. Now, as both sides wage a war of words in the most powerful courts in the world, the only safe haven left is in the air.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: As New.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: Good. Skyhook is a top-secret, high-tech computer program designed to save planes in trouble. But when a test flight goes awry over the Gulf of Alaska, Ben Cole, the brains behind the experiment, finds another kind of trouble as he searches for the suspected saboteur.   Meanwhile, April Rosen takes off on her own investigation--to exonerate her father, whose own plane narrowly escaped a midair collision over the same patch of sea.   Now, both of them are in Washington, up against the shadowy forces of a government whose intentions seem far less than honorable. And when their paths cross, the quest to discover Skyhook's real purpose, and real dangers, will unite them in a dangerous fight for the truth. …

Condition: Fair. Skyhook is a top-secret, high-tech computer program designed to save planes in trouble. But when a test flight goes awry over the Gulf of Alaska, Ben Cole, the brains behind the experiment, finds another kind of trouble as he searches for the suspected saboteur.   Meanwhile, April Rosen takes off on her own investigation--to exonerate her father, whose own plane narrowly escaped a midair collision over the same patch of sea.   Now, both of them are in Washington, up against the shadowy forces of a government whose intentions seem far less than honorable. And when their paths cross, the quest to discover Skyhook's real purpose, and real dangers, will unite them in a dangerous fight for the truth. …

Condition: Fair. The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure's spacecraft is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. But the thrill of the successful launch turns to terror when a micrometeorite penetrates the capsule, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot. Reality hits: Kip isn't going home. With nothing to do but wait for his doomed fate, Kip writes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer, unaware that an audience of millions has discovered it and is tracking his every word on the Internet. As a massive struggle gets under way to rescue him, Kip has no idea that the world can hear his cries - or that his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his best chance of survival.…

Condition: Very Good. The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure's spacecraft is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. But the thrill of the successful launch turns to terror when a micrometeorite penetrates the capsule, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot. Reality hits: Kip isn't going home. With nothing to do but wait for his doomed fate, Kip writes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer, unaware that an audience of millions has discovered it and is tracking his every word on the Internet. As a massive struggle gets under way to rescue him, Kip has no idea that the world can hear his cries - or that his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his best chance of survival.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on American Space Adventure's spacecraft is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. But the thrill of the successful launch turns to terror when a micrometeorite penetrates the capsule, leaving the radios as dead as the pilot. Reality hits: Kip isn't going home. With nothing to do but wait for his doomed fate, Kip writes his epitaph on the ship's laptop computer, unaware that an audience of millions has discovered it and is tracking his every word on the Internet. As a massive struggle gets under way to rescue him, Kip has no idea that the world can hear his cries - or that his heroism in the face of death may sabotage his best chance of survival.…