Stalking the Sky

A DESPERATE RACE TO SAVE AN AIRLINE AND STOP A KILLER Global Universal Airlines, America's premier carrier, is fighting for survival, its aging CEO, Ben Buck, locked in a bitter takeover battle with a powerful, ruthless Midas. Then the first giant 747 plummets from the sky to disaster. And then another. Sabotage is suspected. Unless the killer is exposed and caught, more lives will be lost, and the airline will lose the public's trust and be ripped from Buck's hands. 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 ambition in life: to inherit Ben Buck's crown. Has J. Stephen Girard, the mysterious figure who launched the takeover raid, master-minded the crashes? What secret in Girard's past is so terrible that he will murder to conceal it? And the most urgent question of all: Where will the mysterious 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: Donna, a lively flight attendant; and Belinda, a flamboyant celebrity-artist. Culminating in a heart-stopping confrontation with the killer on the very eve of the stockholder's vote, Stalking the Sky is both an inside look at the great airlines and a gripping, brilliantly-imagined adventure tale with a startling ending. It firmly reinforces Joseph Amiel's place alongside fiction's master storytellers. Read more