From the dust jacket: "Global Universal Airlines, America's premier carrier, is fighting for survival. Locked in a bitter takeover battle with a powerful, faceless conglomerate run by a reclusive Midas, GUA is climbing back after years of declining profits.
And then the first giant 747 plummets from the sky to disaster.
The verdict is sabotage. A second crash over Utah convinces Ben Buck, GUA's aging president and founder, that the saboteur has to be found and the public's trust regained before the airline itself goes down to defeat.
For Will Nye, GUA's brilliant young general counsel, the search is a personal one. The man who had once saved his life was in the crew of the second plane. And Nye has one driving obsession in life: to inherit Ben Buck's crown.
Has J. Stephen Girard, the mysterious figure behind Faranco Inc., masterminded the crashes? In a terrifying race against time, Nye seeks the answers to this and a host of other baffling questions. Who among GUA's top executives has been feeding secret information to Faranco? Where has the saboteur gotten material to blow up the planes-and how has he managed to plant it and escape? What secret in Girard's past is so terrible that he will kill to conceal it? And the most urgent question of all: where will the killer strike next?
Behind the corporate drama is a private one in which Nye must choose between two beautiful women, each determined to make him her own."
And then the first giant 747 plummets from the sky to disaster.
The verdict is sabotage. A second crash over Utah convinces Ben Buck, GUA's aging president and founder, that the saboteur has to be found and the public's trust regained before the airline itself goes down to defeat.
For Will Nye, GUA's brilliant young general counsel, the search is a personal one. The man who had once saved his life was in the crew of the second plane. And Nye has one driving obsession in life: to inherit Ben Buck's crown.
Has J. Stephen Girard, the mysterious figure behind Faranco Inc., masterminded the crashes? In a terrifying race against time, Nye seeks the answers to this and a host of other baffling questions. Who among GUA's top executives has been feeding secret information to Faranco? Where has the saboteur gotten material to blow up the planes-and how has he managed to plant it and escape? What secret in Girard's past is so terrible that he will kill to conceal it? And the most urgent question of all: where will the killer strike next?
Behind the corporate drama is a private one in which Nye must choose between two beautiful women, each determined to make him her own."
