The Gentle Tasaday: A Stone Age People in the Philippine Rain Forest

From Publisher's Weekly"It is hard to imagine that another book will appear for a long time so poignant and full of wonders as Nance's full-bodied story of the discovery of a tiny handful of Stone Age people, the Tasaday, in the forests of Mindanao in 1971....One gets to know each member of the childlike "forest family." praised PW. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The Gentle Tasaday A Stone Age Poepl in the Philippine Rain Forest

History

NANCE, JOHN J.

Asia

HARCOURT, BRACE

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 pilot, now flying this commercial Boeing 747, isn't ready to die. They say he can't land his plane. They say he's a threat to the whole world. They're ready to blast him out of the sky. Captain Holland may be on a collision course with doom-but they're going to have to catch him first. He's determined to take whatever risks he must to outfly them. Outsmart them. And beat...Pandora's Clock.

Pandora's Clock

Literature & Fiction

St. Martin's Paperbacks

He took you on a collision course with disaster in Pandora's Clock In the high-flying tradition of his extraordinary New York Times bestseller Pandora's Clock, author and aviator John J. Nance launches Medusa's Child, an explosive new thriller that takes to the skies-and takes you to the height of terror. Now he brings you to the brink of nuclear catastrophe 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, obliterating any and all traces of modern technology. Now Scott is flying blind, with nowhere to land and nothing to rely on but his own instincts. And one wrong move could ignite a worldwide apocalypse by unleashing...

Medusa's Child

Contemporary

St.Martin's

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 air and on the brink, and the one woman who can bring him-and a plane full of passengers-down safely... Or a victim of injustice? Fugitive pilot Ken Wolfe holds a 737 hostage high above the Rocky Mountains. As the lives of his passengers hang in the balance, Wolfe demands the apprehension and indictment of an unprosecuted killer-within twenty-four hours. Rookie FBI agent Kat Bronsky must tend to his fragile psyche while talking the pilot down and into the hands of the law. But as Wolfe's motives unfold, Kat begins to question who is actually the villain and who is the victim-and time continues to run out on a plane headed for disaster... Sooner or later, the truth must land.

The Last Hostage

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Skyhook

Pan Books

Headwind

Turbulence

The passengers of Meridien Flight 6 - delayed for tedious and uncomfortable hours, and mistreated by rude and inept airline personnel - have finally been pushed to the edge. When Captain Phil Knight makes a forced emergency landing in war-torn Nigeria, there abandoning his co-pilot to certain death, violence erupts inside the aircraft as the enraged passengers attempt the first-ever commercial airline mutiny. But what they don't realize could kill them.For the unscheduled loss of radio contact with their flight has let NATO and the CIA to believe it has been hijacked by terrorists and must now be carrying a deadly chemical weapon into the very heart of Western Europe. In the pressurized last moments as Flight 6 approaches, NATO scramblesto uncover the reality of the plane's cargo...while navy pilots bring the 747 into their gunsights, and the lives of many innocent passengers hang in the balance. 'His latest thriller delivers the suspense his fans want...spurring the plot to ever to ever higher excitement' - "Publishers Weekly".

Pan/Macmillan

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 major seismic disaster in North America, and also furnishes information on the Mississippi Valley quake of 1811 and the one in Chile in 1960, showing how great the damage can be. He treats the history of seismology and its exponential growth in our century, alluding to two contemporary temblors that were predicted: Haicheng, China, in 1975 and Oaxaca, Mexico, in 1978. But while demonstrating that seismology is becoming an exact science, he also points out that the public is often deaf to the warnings of experts, citing the examples of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and Anchorage, Alaska, where people have rebuilt on ground that has proved to be unsafe. With 39 states of the U.S. declared "significant seismic hazard zones," Nance outlines ways to minimize disaster; his message merits wide attention. Photos not seen by PW. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

On Shaky Ground: America's Earthquake Alert

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Avon/Books

There is no antidote for terror Captain James Holland is the pilot on a routine flight from Frankfurt to New York, packed with people eager to be home for Christmas. When a passenger collapses from what appears to be a heart attack, Holland is forced to request an emergency landing at London's Heathrow Airport. But to his great surprise, the air traffic controllers will not let him land in England -- they tell Holland that his sick passenger has contracted a dangerous new form of influenza and that the plane must return to Germany. But when German officials also refuse the landing, and other European countries follow suit, Holland begins to suspect that he's in much more trouble than anyone's letting on. In fact, his sick passenger is carrying a deadly virus accidentally released from a Bavarian laboratory, and it is feared that everyone on board is now infected. At the same time, someone with access to the CIA's computers wants to shoot the plane out of the sky, and there is a United States ambassador on board with powerful terrorist enemies who want to see him dead. While the panic on the ground spreads from the White House Situation Room to a small airport in the Ukrainian Republic, Captain Holland has only one concern: Where and when can he land? Pandora's Clock -- the most gripping, heart-stopping read of the year.

United States

DOUBLEDAY

Everything in America is about to stop... 10,000 feet over Washington, D.C.! With the same breathtaking heroics that brought his bestselling Pandora's Clock international acclaim, John J. Nance once again spins today's headlines--this time about the threat of nuclear terrorism--into an all-too-realistic story of high-flying suspense. For thirty-year-old captain Scott McKay, the transport run from Miami to Denver will give him the money he desperately needs to keep his fledgling air cargo company flying. When a mysterious crate is discovered on his plane, however, McKay is ordered to abandon his present course and fly the crate and its owner, Vivian Henry, to Washington, D.C., before going to Denver. McKay takes the forced detour in stride--until a strange noise comes from deep inside the crate. It is the voice of Vivian's husband, Dr. Rogers Henry, warning that the shipment they are carrying is actually a fully armed Medusa device, a thermonuclear bomb that can destroy every computer chip over an entire continent, and blast the Silicon Age back to the Stone Age. And it is set to go off within hours. As panic spreads from the small community of nuclear scientists who used to work for Dr. Rogers Henry to the White House and eventually to the general public, a group of rogue military officers conspires to disobey the President's orders and secure the technology of the Medusa device, whatever the cost. Will Captain McKay and his crew trust their own instincts to dispose of the bomb, or will they let a misguided government dictate their actions? Using his inside knowledge of the airline industry, as well as his expertise as a pilot, John J. Nance has once again turned our worst fears into a terrifyingly realistic story. Medusa's Child will take readers into the center of a spine-tingling crisis.

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The Gentle Tasaday A Stone Age Poepl in the Philippine Rain Forest

Pandora's Clock

Medusa's Child

The Last Hostage

Skyhook

Headwind

Turbulence

On Shaky Ground: America's Earthquake Alert

Pandora's Clock

Medusa's Child