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Saturday, July 11, 2020

Finished: The Last Flight (Clark) The fastest I've read a book in a long, long time! The Last Flight is a gripping, page-turner. It's the story of two women, strangers, running from their lives, who meet briefly in an airport and desperately exchange boarding passes and ID's to take the other's flight and assume a new identity. Claire is running from a powerful, rich, yet physically abusive husband who is about to run for senate, but who is suspected of killing a former lover who crossed him. She's attempted to divorce him before, only to be beaten into submission. Everyone knows her, and the family's philanthropic nature, outwardly at least. Eva is running from a life of manufacturing drugs for rich Berkley students. She's caught between the ruthless man who set her up in the business, and the DEA agent who insists she turn evidence against the man, even as the agent can't promise her protection after she testifies. Neither telling the other the complete truth of what they'd be meeting on the other end of their landing flight, both women see no other choice but to run from everything and everyone they know. The story unfolds very quickly when the flight of one of the women crashes in the middle of the ocean with no survivors, and the remaining woman's face is splashed all over the papers as lost in the flight. It's not a very deep story, but just the kind of suspenseful drama I needed to keep me reading to see what happens to Claire and Eva, and to see if the men in their lives get their comeuppance as well. :-)

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