Passenger 19

November 2, 2015
The stakes are personal for Jammer Davis in Larsen’s exciting third thriller featuring the airplane crash investigator (after 2011’s Fly by Night). Larry Green, head of the National Transportation Safety Board’s Office of Aviation Safety, calls on Davis when an ARJ-35 passenger plane goes down in southern Colombia. Three crew members and 21 passengers were aboard, including Davis’s 19-year-old daughter, Jennifer. Davis flies the same day to Bogotá. At the jungle crash site, two are missing among the dead—Jennifer and another young woman, Kristin Stewart, who happens to resemble Jennifer. Other anomalies, such as bullet wounds in the back of the pilot’s and copilot’s heads, suggest a hijacking. When both Colombian and U.S. officials prove uncooperative, a frustrated Davis takes matters into his own hands. Aided by a drone and some hastily recruited allies, Davis goes on the offensive in some nice action scenes that are followed by some satisfying payback. Agent: Susan Gleason, Susan Gleason Literary Agency.

November 15, 2015

This new Jammer Davis (Fly By Wire; Fly By Night) technothriller finds the aircraft accident investigator heading to Colombia when his daughter's flight disappears over remote jungles. The found wreckage reveals that two passengers may not have died with the rest, as their remains are missing. In Davis's quest to find his daughter, he discovers revolutionaries, murder, and more sinister doings. VERDICT Danger and suspense await readers in this action-packed tale, which revolves around revenge that gets out of hand. Some of the technological details may overwhelm general thriller readers, but fans of Larsen's previous books won't be disappointed and aviation buffs will revel in the details revealed by a former airline captain.--Michelle Martinez, Sam Houston State Univ. Lib., Huntsville, TX

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December 1, 2015
Jammer Davis has worked on several investigations for the National Transportation Safety Board, but this one is much more personal: a small aircraft with his daughter on boardon her way to a semester abroadhas crashed in Colombia. Quickly dispatched to the site, Davis is shocked to find no evidence in the wreckage of the bodies that should have been in two empty seats. The pilots, it turns out, were shot to death, and the empty seats appear to have belonged to a woman and the Secret Service agent guarding her. What happened to them? Why was the Secret Service even there, and could his daughter possibly have been involved?The more he investigates, the more he encounters pushback. Larsen has written other suspenseful aviation thrillers (Fly by Night, 2011), and fans of airborne crime fiction, if they don't know his work already, should start reading him now.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)