No drink in the pilots’ lounge, no dinner, not even a bath when he got back to Westwood. He had a nasty, pounding headache, and his plans for the evening were firmly set.
He could not remember the last time he had been so relieved-and so tired-at the end of a flight. He let a long sigh hiss through his teeth and unfastened his shoulder harness. 1īrian Engle rolled the American Pride L1011 to a stop at Gate 22 and flicked off the FASTEN SEATBELT light at exactly 10:14 P.M. ExcerptĬhapter One CHAPTER ONE BAD NEWS FOR CAPTAIN ENGLE. Can the survivors manage to fly the plane back to Los Angeles, back to the correct time, before The Langoliers succeed in their deadly mission to destroy the plane and the world? Dinah Bellman, the young blind girl whose aunt did not survive the time rip, has the greatest insight of all.Ī spine-tingling, propulsive novella, The Langoliers is a brilliant read from the masterful Stephen King. Two creatures, followed by hundreds more, emerge from the forest and head for the plane, consuming everything in their path. It turns out that Craig is right, in a way. Bob declares they have entered a place that forbids time travelers to observe or interfere with past events. It’s mystery author Bob Jenkins who first theorizes that they have flown through a time rip. Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a breakdown, believes it is “The Langoliers,” monsters he was afraid of as a child who attack those who waste time.
Yet they hear “radio static” in the distance. On a cross-country, redeye flight from Los Angeles to Boston, ten passengers awaken in Bangor, Maine, to find that the crew and most of their fellow passengers have disappeared. Stephen King’s unforgettable novella-first included in his 1990, award-winning collection Four Past Midnight and made into a highly acclaimed miniseries-about a terrifying plane ride into a most unfriendly sky.
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