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Theodore Honey is a shy, inconspicuous engineer whose eccentric interests are frowned upon in aviation circles. When a passenger plane crashes in Newfoundland under unexplained circumstances, Honey is determined to prove his unorthodox theory about what went wrong to his superiors, before more lives are lost.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Nevil Shute
- First published
- June 1985
- Pages
- 314
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, McClelland & Stewart, Pan
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- und, English
- ISBN
- 9781546702702
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