This is Your Captain Speaking

This is Your Captain Speaking (2012) by Jon Methven. An airplane takes off, then suffers engine failure. The captain, Hank Swagger, manages to land the plane on the Hudson River and save all the passengers, thus becoming a hero. But all is not as it seems. It turns out that the crash was engineered by the airline as a stunt to pump up its stock price, which has been in a slump. A variety of weird characters become involved in the plot and the cover up, all interacting in funny ways up until the ultimate shoot-out. To some people this will be a very funny book; but to me, it was mostly just stupid. It's certainly well written, and all the parts fit together in interesting ways. But I didn't especially look forward to reading it again after I had put it down for a while, and I never laughed. You may find this a highly entertaining book. I didn't. Grade: B-