Drowning

From real-life flight attendant T. J. Newman, who wrote her first book, FALLING, at 35,000 feet while crisscrossing the country on redeye flights when her passengers were asleep.

The new novel from the author of FALLING: the blockbuster thriller and most explosive global bestseller of 2021. ''Reads like Apollo 13 - underwater...'' DON WINSLOW Praise for FALLING: ‘Amazing . . . Intense suspense, shocks and scares plus chilling insider authenticity make this one very special’ LEE CHILD ''FALLING is the best kind of thriller (for me as a reader anyway). Characters you care deeply about. Nonstop, totally authentic suspense'' JAMES PATTERSON ‘Attention, please: T. J. Newman has written the perfect thriller ! GILLIAN FLYNN, #1 bestselling author of Gone Girl ‘Think Speed on a passenger jet - with the cockpit dials turned up to supersonic’ IAN RANKIN ‘Stunning and relentless. This is Jaws at 35,000 feet’ DON WINSLOW ‘The best thriller I’ve read in years. Buckle up’ ADRIAN MCKINTY ‘A jet-propelled thriller that will have you in its grip from first page to last. A truly astonishing debut and an incredible work of pure suspense’ STEVE CAVANAGH ‘With characters you’ll root for and a plot that dips and bounces like a plane hitting turbulence, this thrill ride is impossible to put down’ Daily Mail ‘A scorching thriller’ Evening Standard ''Newman’s [flight attendant] background means Falling brings a freshness and depth to the genre'' The Guardian ‘Gripping from the first sentence, this thriller is like no other’ OK! Magazine ''A remarkable debut'' The Sunday Times

Auteur
T. J. Newman, a former bookseller turned flight attendant, worked for Virgin America and Alaska Airlines from 2011 to 2021. She wrote much of her first novel Falling on cross-country red-eye flights while her passengers were asleep. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona. This is her second novel.

Résumé
Flight attendant turned New York Times bestselling author T. J. Newman - whose first book Falling was an instant international bestseller and the biggest thriller debut of 2021 - returns for her second book, an edge-of-your-seat thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean, and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside, and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them.

**Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors—but it’s too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside.

More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives.

Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent - Shannon’s mother and Will’s soon-to-be ex-wife - who must work together with Will to find a way to save their daughter and rescue the passengers from the sealed airplane, which is now teetering on the edge of an undersea cliff.

**There’s not much time.

There’s even less air.

With devastating emotional power and heart-stopping suspense, Drowning is an unforgettable thriller about a family’s desperate fight to save themselves and the people trapped with them - against impossible odds.

Praise for Drowning:

'Stunning, emotional, and unforgettable. Drowning reads like *Apollo 13 *underwater' **Don Winslow, New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire and The Border

'Drowning *is *The Poseidon Adventure *meets *The Martian. It is another can’t-put-down, edge-of-your-seat thriller from T. J. Newman, one of our most exciting new authors' Adrian McKinty, New York Times *bestselling author of *The Chain and The Island

'Drowning is pure adrenaline and all heart. Gripping, relentless, effortlessly assured, T. J. Newman’s thriller is tense and moving. You’ll be grabbed from page one as the crew and passengers of a downed airliner fight for survival and rescuers race to reach them. Drowning is an incredible ride - strap in, brace, and remember to breathe' Meg Gardiner, #1* New York Times *bestselling author

'Drowning is the first terrific thriller of 2023.  Honest. It has at least a dozen legit cliffhangers and a dozen huggable characters you can’t stop rooting for.  T.J. Newman has the goods.  Make that thegreats!' James Patterson