T.J. Newman made a huge deal to adapt her 2021 debut, 'Falling.' Her new follow-up, 'Drowning,' confirms her skill at crafting gripping disaster procedurals.
T.J. Newman wrote “Falling,” a thriller set aboard a flight, during red-eyes while working as a flight attendant. Then came the book and movie deals.? There are various methods, many of them meticulously researched and painstakingly presented by Newman in a book that is primarily about problem-solving in the face of death.
In an early passage, as the pilots prepare to ditch, Kit looks up at a series of buttons she’s never had to push before. We learn they are called the “Help me, Jesus” buttons: Looking up reminds you to pray. There is no shortage of unfamiliar buttons. By the time bright red letters in the cockpit spell out “ENG 1 FADEC FAULT,” you might think you need a degree in engineering to follow what’s going on. You don’t. Newman breaks it down in clear and unobtrusive fashion, her details as elemental and engaging as the minutiae of spycraft are to an espionage thriller. When made digestible and propulsively dramatic, the jargon elevates the material to its own new genre — the disaster procedural.
Years spent working for Virgin America obviously afforded the author intimate behind-the-scenes knowledge, as well as access to technical specialists. But much of the technology deployed in the book’s recovery effort required Newman to plow through confusing manuals and talk to people with esoteric expertise.
The work has clearly paid off; the author has found a winning formula and pitched it with stunning persistence. After being rejected by 41 agents, “Falling,” the debut Newman had written on the red-eye between LAX and JFK, sold to Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press in a seven-figure preemptive offer and went on to become a New York Times bestseller.
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