Pamela May Donald, churchgoer, dog-lover, overweight and sweetly naive, is flying from Tokyo to Osaka, "squashed in like a canned ham", when a huge boom echoes through her plane. It drops, "giant hands press down on her shoulders, and her stomach feels like it's being forced up into her throat. Uh-uh. No. This can't be happening. Not to her".
South African author Sarah Lotz's thriller The Three, bought amid a great deal of fuss and for a great deal of money in 2012, has a gut-churningly terrifying opening that is likely to prevent any nervous flyer from boarding an aircraft ever again. Pamela's plane crash is described in full-on, Technicolor detail: "Brace, brace, brace for impact A rending sound like giant metal fingernails scoring a blackboard "
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