Izel's face bore the weary expression of an experienced flight attendant who wasn't about to panic over such a small thing. You take one aisle and I'll take the other." Zero visibility, according to the captain. She had been on a break, asleep for less than twenty minutes, and had scarcely opened her eyes when her colleague Meliha thrust her aged, fleshy bosom toward her. After nearly three years spent traveling the world with Turkish Airlines, she was used to a few jolts. Izel was woken not by the turbulence, but by the screaming. They woke abruptly, with the terrifying sensation that they had nodded off while strapped to a rollercoaster. In a dive lasting less than ten seconds, the plane sank over three thousand feet, before stabilizing once again.
The Airbus 5403, flying from Istanbul to Paris, suddenly plummeted. After Marc reads the notebook’s contents, he embarks on a frantic search for Lylie.īut he is not the only one looking for her. Meanwhile, Lylie, now a beautiful university student, entrusts a secret notebook into the hands of Marc, the brooding young man who loves her, and then vanishes. As he contemplates taking his own life, Crédule Grand-Duc suddenly discovers a secret hidden in plain view. In contrast, the de Carvilles, who amassed a fortune in the oil business, are powerful-and dangerous.Įighteen years later, a private detective tasked with solving the mystery of the girl known as “Lylie” is on the verge of giving up. Dogged by bad luck, the Vitrals live a simple life, selling snacks from a van on the beaches of northern France. Is “the Miracle Child of Mont Terri” Lyse-Rose or Emilie? The families of both girls step forward to claim the child. The sole survivor is a three-month-old girl–thrown from the airliner before fire consumes the cabin. Of the 169 passengers, all but one perish. Within seconds flames engulf the plane, which is filled with holiday travelers. Just after midnight on December 23, 1980, a night flight bound for Paris plummets toward the Swiss Alps, crashing into a snowy mountainside. “Wonderfully ingenious and altogether satisfying.”-Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review
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