Dawn Newton Interviews Dana Haynes

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Dawn Newton of KPOV’s Open Air gives insightful, interesting interviews. Click the link to below to hear her interview with Dana Haynes.

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Saturday March 24^th at 5:00 PM Dana Haynes will give a presentation on his latest book, Breaking Point. If you like action, enjoy an adrenalin rush, Dana Haynes is your guy. It starts out fast, picking up the pace as the pages fly by. High octane could be a good description for Haynes’ writing style. The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) calls the teams it sends to investigate when a plane goes down “Crashers”. These are people smart enough and strong enough to sort through the grizzly wreckage to find the truth, to figure out what took that long silver body out of the sky. Pathologist Tommy Tomzak, sound expert Kiki Duvall, and pilot Isaiah Grey are Crashers. They will board flight 78 headed for Seattle Washington where they are scheduled to speak at a conference. They will never arrive. Somewhere outside Helena Montana the plane will be brought down in a remote forest. “Crashers” will be sent to find out why. Haynes puts you right in the cockpit as the pilots battle to keep the plane airborne, a struggle they will lose. He takes you inside the investigation as the crash team keeps finding things that don’t add up. A shadowy mercenary is in the employ of powerful interests in the weapons game, they are more than ready to be brutal in achieving their aims. A computer genius realizes his inventions will be used for nothing but evil and tries to stop the bad guys by spilling their secrets to the press. A beautiful woman must choose between her high-end lifestyle in the country she has adopted and the man she loves. She will choose poorly. And a clever FBI agent will have to put it all together with the help of a former Israeli spy. The story hurtles toward its climatic conclusion.

Haynes’ earlier book, Crashers, introduces many of the characters in Breaking Point. Flight 111 didn’t make it far after taking off from Portland International; the flight goes down just outside Corvallis along I-5. Tommy Tomzak was in Portland for a conference; he helicopters to the scene of the downed jetliner and takes charge. The story line grabs you from the first page, letting you experience what it is like inside the investigation. It would not surprise me if Hollywood took note of this author, his pyrotechnic ending would be stunning on celluloid. If you want action, Dana Haynes delivers.