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Sunday 27 June 2021

Hostage by Clare Mackintosh

 


Description from Goodreads:

"You can save hundreds of lives.
Or the one that matters most . . .

The atmosphere on board the inaugural non-stop flight from London to Sydney is electric. Numerous celebrities are rumoured to be among the passengers in business class and journalists will be waiting on the ground to greet the plane.

Mina is one of a hand-picked team of flight attendants chosen for the landmark journey. She's trying to focus on the task in hand, and not worry about her troubled five-year-old daughter back at home with her husband. Or the cataclysmic problems in her marriage.

But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination. Someone who needs Mina's assistance and who knows exactly how to make her comply.

It's twenty hours to landing.
A lot can happen in twenty hours . . ."

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You know sometimes when there is so much hype around a book and then you read it and it's a bit of a disappointment ... well, let me tell you that this is not one of them!

Oh my word.  What an absolutely corker of a read this is.  I know it's a clichΓ©, but this really is page-turning and difficult to put down.  It starts quite serenely but the sense of dread creeps up on you just as it does to Mina. 

There aren't enough superlatives to describe this book, just know that it's everything you would want in a thriller.   Excellent characters, relentless pacing, claustrophobic, nail-biting, gripping, tense, thrilling and that's just what's happening on the flight; I won't even start to go into what's going on at home!

As you have probably guessed, I thoroughly enjoyed this and would recommend to anyone who .... well anyone really!

Thanks must be given to Little, Brown Book Group and NetGalley for my copy in return for an unbiased and unedited review.

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