Black Box - Hardcover

JONES LARRY

3.48

27 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0883688727 ISBN 13: 9780883688724

Publisher: Whitaker House, 2004

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Flight 027 out of Hong Kong has crashed in the mountains of central Asia. Four men and three women on a routine airplane trip suddenly find themselves stranded in a snow-covered wasteland, fighting for their lives.As the group struggles to endure, intrigue and mystery arise as some of the survivors seem bent on carrying out a hidden agenda--an agenda that centers on finding the plane's black box. Caught up in a web of deceit, flight attendant Dorothy Chandler and the other six survivors must look within to find the deliverance they so desperately desire.

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About the Author:

Larry Jones is the founder and president of Feed The Children, a nonprofit organization providing aid and assistance to children and families in need. Larry and his wife Frances started the organization 24 years ago. Today, Feed The Children is the 28th largest charity in the country.Larry Jones was born in 1940 in Scottsville, Kentucky, and grew up in Bowling Green. He attended Oklahoma City University for his Bachelor of Arts degree and Phillips Seminary in Enid, Oklahoma, for his Bachelor's of Divinity degree. Larry is married to the former Frances Hackler, and they have two children: Allen and Larri Sue.Over the years Larry Jones has received national and international recognition for his service to others, including the H. J. Heimlich Humanitarian Award for relief efforts throughout the world in 2000, the Humanitarian Award from the National Conference of Christians and Jews in 1995, Oklahoman of the Year in 1994, the National Caring Award in 1993, ABC News "Person of the Week" in 1990, plus Humanitarian Commendations from Armenia, El Salvador, Guatemala, Iran, and Lebanon. Additionally, Larry Jones is the author of numerous books, including How to Bend without Breaking, How to Make It to Friday, The 15-Second Secret, and Life's Interruptions, God's Opportunities.

From Publishers Weekly:

Survivors of a plane crash fight for their lives and seek their God in Jones's earnest but mediocre debut. A routine flight out of Hong Kong goes terribly awry when bad weather and a drunken copilot send the 757 into Chinese airspace. On board is a media-centric U.S. senator; an up-by-her-bootstraps black journalist; a faithful but guilt-plagued bishop; a pregnant, unwed flight attendant; a pretty American ex-pat; and a tobacco marketing executive, and Jones bounces among their points of view, as well as that of the pilot (who is, incidentally, the father of the flight attendant's baby), during the many pages it takes for the Chinese to decide to fire on the plane and for the plane to crash-land at an abandoned air strip in Bhutan, killing everyone but the aforementioned seven. As if trying to survive in the freezing mountains after plummeting thousands of feet isn't enough, Jones adds in plenty of dark secrets and deceitful dealings. It's a fine premise, but it falters in its execution, as Jones flits from one character to another without fleshing any of them out beyond stereotype. Foxhole conversions can be powerful, however, and Jones offers several, as well as a moving epilogue whose emotion redeems some of the book's weaker moments.
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