Alistair MacLean's Air Force One Is Down

A terrorist group takes control of Air Force One and kidnaps the President of the United States. The demand the release of an imprisoned Serbian dictator. Failure to meet the terms: the President will die.

Time is running out, and the nature of survival is tested to the limit for Captain Markey, as Dragutin's plan to kidnap the President of the United States becomes a chilling reality.

President Harriet Rowntree is traveling to NATO negotiations when her plane plunges into the sea. She is not on board, but is the victim of a kidnapping scheme.

In twelve hours, the president will be killed on camera if Dragutin is not set free. The situation goes from bad to worse as Markey struggles to locate the kidnapper's lair.

A vengeful Dragutin disappears, but the hostages' lives still hang in the balance and time is running out to find them.