TY - BOOK AU - Hawley,Noah TI - Before the fall SN - 1444779753 AV - PS 3558 .A8234 B44 2016 PY - 2016/// CY - London PB - Hodder & Stoughton KW - Airplane crash survival KW - Fiction KW - Aircraft accident victims KW - fast KW - Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) KW - Massachusetts KW - Martha's Vineyard KW - Suspense fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft N2 - The elite have everything: money, cars, private jets and beautiful families. David Whitehead 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 Whiteheads' 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. In the rectifying hours, he cannot imagine how his life will be changed forever. With the SEC, FBI and National Transportation Safety Board investigating what happened to the plane, and the lives of everyone on board - the Whiteheads, the Kiplings and the crew - it is not long before their secrets start to come into the light. It seems as though the crash might be more than a tragic accident ER -