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Book Title:Airport
Book Series:
Genre:Thriller
Author:Arthur Hailey
Year Published:1968
Condition:Good
Format:Hardback
Dust Jacket:Yes
Special:1st Edition
Publisher:Doubleday
Synopsis:
This is a fictional story – fast paced, exciting, richly textured with memorable characters. Yet we think you will find it more than a story. It is about your airport too. Yet those with inside knowledge – like Mel Bakersfield, the airports career-jinxed general manager – are aware of grave deficiencies. Operational areas are out molded to the point of danger; air traffic control is overtaxed; the supposedly modern glass chrome main terminal has become a whited sepulcher. Against this background is set a dramatic, behind the scenes story of seven eventful airport hours during a mid-winter snowstorm – with pressures passions and problems of their own – who share them. You will meet Joe Patroni, cocky and genial airline maintenance chief, striving to clear a disabled aircraft from an urgently needed runway; Air Traffic Controller Keith Bakersfeld suffering stress and conscience stricken by the memory of an air disaster for which he was responsible; Tanya Livingston passenger relations agent (an attractive divorcee) whose suspicions triggered by a sharp-eyed customs inspector, reveal an unsuspected crisis; Captain (and check pilot) Vernon Demerest, arrogant admired by women and despising “ground bound pigeons,” especially Airport Commissioners; Elliot Freemantle, crusading lawyer, leading a group of home-owners incensed by airport noise; Gwen Meighen, a hot-tempered English brunette from “Stewardess Row”; Ada Quonsett, an old lady who explains her techniques as an aerial stowaway; D. O. Guerrero, a psychotic with a homemade bomb. Arthur Hailey has employed the same multi-plot technique which he used successfully in Hotel and The Final Diagnosis. As usual, he has written an engrossing enjoyable tale, packed with little known and fascinating information: How, for example, smugglers trip themselves up with customs; how to get free drinks on economy flights; the way in which stewardess pregnancy programs work; what is an airport “Conga Line”; how much an airline will pay on the spot for a damaged luggage claim; and why airport insurance booths are hated by airline pilots . But the true hero of this novel is the airport itself viewed through the eyes of a master story teller.
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Description

Book Title:Airport
Book Series:
Genre:Thriller
Author:Arthur Hailey
Year Published:1968
Condition:Good
Format:Hardback
Dust Jacket:Yes
Special:1st Edition
Publisher:Doubleday

Additional information

Weight2 lbs
Dimensions9.5 × 6.5 × 3.5 in

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