Finished: Night Over Water (Follett) An older book of Follett's, but a very good one! The story is about a night that several people spend flying over the Atlantic from the UK to New York in a giant seaplane called the Pan Am Clipper. The Pan Am Clipper was a real airplane that was used from 1938 to 1941. In this story, Hitler has just declared war on the UK so this is one of the last flights out before the war begins. The luxury plane carries an aristocratic family fleeing the UK for America; a rich woman running away from her husband with a man she's just met; a young jewel thief, posing as one of the upper crust; an American movie star; a German physicist who has been freed from captivity in Germany and is fleeing to America, away from Hitler; an FBI agent escorting a murderer who has been extradited from the UK; an agent with the Scotland Yard; and a man who has a huge secret and a nefarious plan in the works. Someone on the plane isn't safe! The plane's engineer is being blackmailed to make sure the plane has to touch down in a different location than is planned for the final sea landing. One of these passengers will not make it to America if the bad guy has his way. Many relationships develop in the day it takes the plane to cross the Atlantic. And, a few people grow up and change their ways. A couple of surprise passengers join the plane at one of the refueling stops, and an unlikely hero or two emerge. It's a page-turning read and I'd love to know where most of the characters are now! :-)