John J. Nance

Book List in Order: 17 titles

  • Thrilled to Death

    Buckle your seatbelts for three high-flying aviation thrillers—written by experienced pilots including a New York Times–bestselling author.  Lockout Whoever has electronically disconnected the flight controls of Pangia Flight 10 as i...

  • 16 Souls

    The Latest Aviation Thriller From New York Times Bestselling Author John Nance!On takeoff from Denver during a winter blizzard, an airliner piloted by veteran Captain Marty Mitchell overruns a commuter plane from behind. Bizarrely, the fuselage of th...

  • Lockout

    Over the Atlantic in the dark of night, the electronic brain of Pangia Airlines Flight 10 quietly and without warning disconnects all the cockpit controls and reverses course on its own. The crew of the huge Airbus 330 at first sense nothing, the fli...

  • Orbit

    The year is 2009. For Kip Dawson, winning a passenger seat on one of American Space Adventure's commercial spaceflights is a dream come true. One grand shot of insanity and he can return to earth fulfilled. It's a bittersweet moment of triumph, howev...

  • Saving Cascadia

    A few hundred years ago, Cascadia Island didn't even exist. Like the Washington seacoast, it was rock submerged beneath the Pacific. A massive earthquake changed that, exploding the rock upward, making it land -- unstable land, according to seismolog...

  • Fire Flight

    Veteran pilot Clark Maxwell thought his fire bombing days were well behind him. But when Jerry Stein, Maxwell's friend and airtanker fleet-owner, calls at the height of the fire season to beg him to reenter the war, he doesn't hesitate. A pair of fer...

  • Skyhook

    Skyhook is a top-secret, high-tech computer program designed to save planes in trouble. But when a test flight goes awry over the Gulf of Alaska, Ben Cole, the brains behind the experiment, finds another kind of trouble as he searches for the suspect...

  • Turbulence

    The passengers of Meridian Flight 6--delayed for hours and mistreated by airline personnel--have been pushed to the edge. When Captain Phil Knight makes a forced emergency landing in war- torn Nigeria, abandoning his copilot to certain death, violenc...

  • Headwind

    In the skies above Europe, a Boeing 737 jets toward an unknown destination. On board is John Harris—a fugitive from justice. Charged by an international accord of ordering the torture of hundreds of innocent people, he is the most wanted man in the...




  • Blackout

    Born to a serial killer, Jessica Shepard has devoted her life to tracking down men who destroy innocent lives. A survivor—and a loner—the hunt is her blood. She’s an expert.   What does she want to forget? Then a man is found floating in San F...

  • The Last Hostage

    A DEMENTED HIJACKER... A master of aviation suspense, author John J. Nance thrilled the country with his explosive bestsellers, Pandora's Clock and Medusa's Child. Now, as only he can do, Nance soars with a gripping new novel about one man in the ai...

  • Medusa's Child

    At 10,000 feet, Captain Scott McKay gets the nerve-shattering news: aboard his Boeing 727 is a ticking time bomb--and not just any bomb. It's the Medusa Project, a thermonuclear monster that could wipe out every computer chip on the continent, oblite...

  • Pandora's Clock

    The biowarfare people call the bug a Level 4 pathogen. That means no cure. No hope. No survivors.Now it's loose on Quantum Flight 66. One passenger is already dead. The experts say in 48 hours the rest may follow.James Holland, former U.S. fighter pi...

  • Final Approach

    SABOTAGE....ACCIDENT....OR MURDER BY OMISSION?The airline told passengers flying to Kansas City the skies were safe. They lied. On a rain-slashed night, Flight 255 crashes at Kansas City Airport -- triggering one of the most horrifying aviation disas...

  • Phoenix Rising

    WELCOME TO THE DEADLY SKIESPam Am Flight 10 is heading routinely from Seattle to Tokyo when one by one its engines explode. Only brilliant work by its pilot saves the 747 and the hundreds of passengers on board....At Pan Am headquarters, the newly re...

  • Scorpion Strike

    THE GULF WAR IS OVER. BUT A DEADLIER WAR IS ABOUT TO ERUPT.... In the wake of Operation Desert Storm, a defecting Iraqi scientist has revealed Saddam Hussein's horrifying plans for a devastating counterstrike against his enemies...and the world. ...

  • On Shaky Ground

    On the heels of T. A. Weppenheimer's The Coming Quake (Nonfiction Forecasts, Aug. 5) appears this excellent study by the author of Blind Trust , in part historical and in part admonitory. Nance goes into detail on the Alaskan quake of 1964, the last ...

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