Winner of the 2017 Edgar Award for Best Novel<\/b>
Selected by The Sunday Times <\/i>as one of the top page-turners of summer 2017<\/b><\/p>\n
FROM THE CREATOR OF THE AWARD WINNING FARGO<\/i> AND LEGION<\/i> TV SERIES<\/p>\n
‘Hawley’s sublime prose glows on every page in this literary thriller of the highest quality’ Daily Mail<\/i><\/p>\n
THE RICH ARE DIFFERENT. BUT FATE IS BLIND.<\/b><\/p>\n
A private jet plunges into the sea.<\/p>\n
The only survivors are down-on his luck artist Scott Burroughs and JJ Bateman, the four year old son of a super-rich TV executive.<\/p>\n
For saving the boy, Scott is suddenly a hero.<\/p>\n
And then, as the official investigation is rapidly overtaken by a media frenzy, it seems he may also be a villain. <\/p>\n
Why was he on the plane in the first place, and why did it crash?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The elite have everything: money, cars, private jets and beautiful families. David Bateman and Ben Kipling are the top of the elite, both influential men with jobs in the media and finance, both travelling back to New York on a private jet after a vacation with their families, and both with secrets that could ruin their lives. Invited on a whim by David’s wife, Scott Burroughs, a middle-aged painter, finds himself on their plane – he needs to visit New York for a meeting that could spark a revival in his failed career. But sixteen minutes into its journey the plane crashes into the sea, Scott and the Bateman’s four-year-old son are the only survivors. With a little boy’s life in his hands Scott begins to swim – an epic journey to the coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[406],"product_tag":[127],"class_list":{"0":"post-95824","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-crime-thrillers","6":"product_tag-modern-contemporary-fiction-post-c-1945","7":"pa_book_author-hawley-noah","8":"pa_cover-paperback","9":"pa_dewey-813-6-edition23","10":"pa_edition-1st-paperback-ed","11":"pa_imprint-hodder","12":"pa_language-english","13":"pa_pages-9468","14":"pa_publisher-hodder-stoughton","15":"pa_readership-general-trade-code-k","17":"first","18":"instock","19":"taxable","20":"shipping-taxable","21":"purchasable","22":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n