The Three : A Novel (CD-Audio)

from adpaton

I saved The Three for a recent trip to China, deciding a novel about multiple simultaneous air accidents was just the thing to read while flying, and how right I was - it made the hours go by very fast. This is a fictional non-fiction account by journalist Elspeth Martins, called Black Thursday: ...

from quondame

A novel without a central character, we get a close relative of each of three wildly unlikely survivors of separate plane crashes, and those who for one currency or another try to invest the survivals with meaning. Mostly concentrated on mapping the three to the apocalyptic horsemen and the fallo...

from olegalCA

The Three tells the story of three children who survived three plane crashes on the same day around the world. There were actually four planes that crashed that day, fueling speculation that there is a fourth child that escaped detection. One American woman is able to leave a very short and crypt...

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Four simultaneous plane crashes. Three child survivors. A religious fanatic who insists the three are harbingers of the apocalypse. What if he's right? The world is stunned when four commuter planes crash within hours of each other on different continents. Facing global panic, officials are under...

from jen.e.moore

I do think some of the narration is less than great - some of the characters sound too similar, even though the structure of the novel allows for them to be as completely idiosyncratic as you'd like - but it just keeps getting better and better until that last page, which is just about perfect.