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.