Joseph Amiel, Hawks

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Amiel, Joseph - Hawks

1979 NY: Putnam

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Book Description

Global Universal Airlines, America's premier carrier, is fighting for survival. Locked in a bitter takeover battle with a powerful, faceless conglomerate run by a reclusive Midas, GUA is climbing back after years of declining profits. And then the first giant 747 plummets from the sky to disaster.
The verdict is sabotage. A second crash over Utah convinces Ben Buck, GUA's aging president and founder, that the saboteur has to be found and the public's trust regained before the airline itself goes down to defeat. For Will Nye, GUA's brilliant young general counsel, the search is a personal one. The man who had once saved his life was in the crew of the second plane. And Nye has one driving obsession in life: to inherit Ben Buck's crown.
Has J. Stephen Girard, the mysterious figure behind Faranco Inc., masterminded the crashes? In a terrifying race against time, Nye seeks the answers to this and a host of other baffling questions. Who among the GUA's top executives has been feeding secret information to Faranco? What secret in Girard's past is so terrible that he will kill to conceal it?
Culminating in a heart-stopping confrontation on the very eve of the stockholder's vote, Hawks is both a brilliantly imagined adventure tale and an inside look at the great airlines. It firmly places Joseph Amiel alongside such master storytellers as Arthur Hailey and Paul Erdman.

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