Título: Accidental Heroes: A Novel
Autor: Danielle Steel
Sinopse: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A decorated former Air Force pilot. A pregnant flight attendant. A dedicated TSA agent. The fates of these three, and many others, converge in Danielle Steel’s gripping new novel—a heart-stopping thriller that engages ordinary men and women in the fight of their lives during a flight from New York to San Francisco.
On a beautiful May morning at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, two planes have just departed for San Francisco—one a 757, another a smaller Airbus A321. At a security checkpoint, TSA agent Bernice Adams finds a postcard of the Golden Gate Bridge bearing an ambiguous—perhaps ominous—message. Her supervisor dismisses her concerns, but Bernice calls security and soon Ben Waterman arrives. A senior Homeland Security agent, still grappling with guilt after a disastrous operation in which hostages were killed, Ben too becomes suspicious. Who left the postcard behind, which flight is that person on, and what exactly does the message mean?
As Ben scans the passenger manifests, his focus turns to the A321, with Helen Smith as its senior pilot. Helen’s military service and her tenure with the airline have been exemplary. But her husband’s savage death in Iraq was more than anyone should bear, leaving her widowed with three children. A major film star is on board. So is an off-duty pilot who has just lost his forty-year career. So is a distraught father, traveling with the baby son he has abducted from his estranged wife. Sifting through data and relying on instinct, Ben becomes convinced that someone on Helen’s plane is planning something terrible. And he’s right. Passengers, crew, and experts on the ground become heroes out of necessity to try to avert tragedy at the eleventh hour.
In her stunning novel, Danielle Steel combines intense action with stories of emotionally rich, intertwined lives. As the jet bears down on its destination of San Francisco, strangers are united, desperate choices are made, and futures will be changed forever by a handful of accidental heroes.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Accidental Heroes: A Novel”, de Danielle Steel, publicado pela editora Dell, em 2018 e com 336 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Dell
Páginas: 336
Ano: 2018-12-04
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1101884118
ISBN13: 9781101884119
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Dell revelam um interesse marcante por narrativas que exploram relações humanas complexas e dilemas pessoais em contextos variados, do cotidiano urbano às paisagens históricas e rurais. A experiência de leitura frequentemente combina personagens multifacetados, como mulheres em transição ou protagonistas envolvidos em mistérios e conflitos morais, com um ritmo que alterna entre momentos de tensão e introspecção. O catálogo sugere uma predileção por tramas que mesclam o drama familiar, o suspense e o romance, muitas vezes ambientadas em cenários realistas ou com toques históricos, criando um clima envolvente e emocional. Além disso, há obras que transitam entre o mais narrativo e o mais informativo, abrangendo desde thrillers policiais até histórias de superação pessoal e dramas sociais.
