Time is a precious commodity and some readers need to be hooked from page one. T.J. Newman 's 2021 debut novel “Falling” (Avid Reader/Simon & Schuster) begins with a sentence that blasts out of a cannon: “When the shoe dropped in her lap the foot was still in it.”
The novel — about a pilot whose family will be killed if he doesn't crash the plane he's flying — had an equally fast trajectory to the bestseller list. With Newman's second book, "Drowning: The Rescue of Flight 1421," out Tuesday, she again starts with a bang: “Will Kent opened his eyes just to see the engine explode.”
