DON'T FIGHT THIS FLIGHT

Written by T.J. Newman, a former flight attendant, Falling is a kind of blockbuster hijack drama that keeps you strapped in from the start

- Bhavya Dore

FALLING

by T.J. Newman

SIMON & SCHUSTER

₹599; 304 pages

You’re flying a plane with 144 people on board, when you are told your family at home has been taken hostage. You have to choose: either crash a plane full of civilians and save your wife and two children, or save the plane and watch your family die. This is the dilemma thrust on Captain Bill Hoffman, a pilot with Coastal Airways when Falling opens. It’s a promising premise and a turbo-charged read from debutant novelist and former flight attendant T.J. Newman.