Hostage

What if the only way to save your child... was to let others die?

Hostage by New York Times bestselling author Clare Mackintosh is a nerve-shredding psychological thriller that plunges you into an impossible moral dilemma--and doesn't let go until the final, breathless twist. Fans of Lisa Jewell, Ruth Ware, and The Last Flight will devour this masterclass in emotional suspense.

Twenty hours. One plane. Zero good choices.

Mina is a flight attendant, mother, and woman on the edge. She boards the inaugural nonstop flight from London to Sydney hoping for distance--from her unraveling marriage, her daughter's struggles, and her own regrets. Instead, she finds herself trapped at 30,000 feet--when a chilling note warns: Follow our instructions or your daughter dies.

As paranoia spreads and passengers begin to die, Mina must choose: protect the innocent people onboard--or sacrifice them to save her family.

Praise for Hostage:

"Feels like a blockbuster movie." -- Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"An utterly riveting read with so many jaw-dropping twists and turns you won't dare unfasten your seatbelt." -- Lucy Foley, New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List and The Paris Apartment

"A propulsive read--Hostage will have you questioning 'what would you do?' at every turn." -- Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Wife

With over 2 million copies of her books sold worldwide, number one bestseller Clare Mackintosh is the multi-award-winning author of I Let You Go, which was a Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller and the fastest-selling title by a new crime writer in 2015. It also won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year in 2016. Both Clare's second and third novels, I See You and Let Me Lie, were number one Sunday Times bestsellers. Her first three thrillers were selected for the Richard & Judy Book Club, and together have been translated into forty languages. After the End was published in 2019 and became an instant Sunday Times bestseller, and in 2021 Hostage flew straight into the top ten. Her new crime series, featuring Welsh detective DC Ffion Morgan, has been critically acclaimed, with both The Last Party and A Game of Lies hitting the Sunday Times top ten. Together, her books have spent more than sixty-five weeks in The Sunday Times bestseller lists. Clare is patron of the Silver Star Society, a charity based at the John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, which supports parents experiencing high-risk or difficult pregnancies. She lives in North Wales with her husband and their three children.