16 Souls

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  • A
  • pilot’s
  • emergency
  • maneuver
  • lands
  • him
  • in
  • court
  • in
  • this
  • thriller
  • by
  • a
  • New
  • York
  • Times–bestselling
  • author
  • who
  • “knows
  • how
  • to
  • keep
  • his
  • readers
  • turning
  • pages.”
  • —BooklistOn
  • takeoff
  • from
  • Denver
  • during
  • a
  • winter
  • blizzard,
  • an
  • airliner
  • piloted
  • by
  • veteran
  • Captain
  • Marty
  • Mitchell
  • overruns
  • a
  • commuter
  • plane
  • from
  • behind.
  • Bizarrely,
  • the
  • fuselage
  • of
  • the
  • smaller
  • aircraft
  • is
  • tenuously
  • wedged
  • onto
  • the
  • wing
  • of
  • his
  • Boeing
  • 757,
  • leading
  • Mitchell
  • to
  • an
  • impossible
  • life-or-death
  • choice.Mitchell’s
  • decision
  • will
  • land
  • the
  • former
  • military
  • pilot
  • in
  • the
  • crosshairs
  • of
  • a
  • viciously
  • ambitious
  • district
  • attorney
  • determined
  • to
  • send
  • him
  • to
  • prison
  • for
  • doing
  • his
  • job.
  • Despondent
  • and
  • deeply
  • wounded
  • by
  • what
  • he
  • sees
  • as
  • betrayal
  • by
  • the
  • system,
  • Mitchell
  • at
  • first
  • refuses
  • to
  • defend
  • himself
  • or
  • even
  • assist
  • the
  • corporate
  • lawyer
  • forced
  • to
  • represent
  • him.Pitted
  • against
  • the
  • prosecutorial
  • prowess
  • of
  • a
  • DA
  • using
  • Mitchell’s
  • case
  • to
  • audition
  • for
  • a
  • political
  • appointment
  • is
  • young
  • defense
  • attorney
  • Judith
  • Winston.
  • Her
  • lack
  • of
  • experience
  • in
  • criminal
  • cases
  • could
  • mean
  • the
  • end
  • of
  • Mitchell’s
  • freedom,
  • if
  • he
  • doesn’t
  • end
  • his
  • own
  • life
  • first.
  • But
  • like
  • the
  • pilot
  • she
  • represents,
  • she
  • will
  • not
  • give
  • up
  • in
  • the
  • face
  • of
  • devastating
  • odds—and
  • she’s
  • growing
  • ever
  • more
  • determined
  • to
  • expose
  • the
  • corruption
  • behind
  • his
  • personal
  • nightmare
  • .
  • .
  • .“King
  • of
  • the
  • modern-day
  • aviation
  • thriller.”
  • —Publishers
  • Weekly“In
  • the
  • air,
  • or
  • in
  • a
  • courtroom,
  • nobody
  • writes
  • a
  • better
  • thriller
  • than
  • John
  • J.
  • Nance.”
  • —Steve
  • Jackson,
  • New
  • York
  • Times–bestselling author
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