{"product_id":"2026100009258-secondhand-flying-hero-class-signed","title":"Flying Hero Class (SIGNED)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 1st uk ed.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Very good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: Very good\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Signed\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt thirty thousand feet, with nowhere to run and no one to negotiate with, terror takes on an entirely new dimension — Flying Hero Class is a razor-sharp thriller that chronicles the hijacking of a passenger jet carrying a troupe of Aboriginal dancers, a guilt-ridden aid worker, and a cast of morally complex characters trapped between ideology and survival. Thomas Keneally thrusts his protagonist, McCloud — a conflicted arts administrator — into the suffocating pressure cooker of a mid-air hostage crisis, forcing him to confront not only his captors but the uncomfortable truths about his own cultural assumptions and personal cowardice. Set against the backdrop of Palestinian militancy and the uneasy relationship between the Western world and indigenous cultures, the novel dissects power, identity, and moral compromise with surgical precision.\n\nKeneally, the Booker Prize-winning author of Schindler's Ark, brings his trademark blend of moral seriousness and narrative urgency to this politically charged work, crafting a story that is as intellectually provocative as it is relentlessly gripping. His prose is spare yet loaded with psychological tension, drawing the reader into a world where the personal and the geopolitical collide at altitude. The result is a novel that refuses easy resolution — leaving the reader to wrestle with its unsettling questions long after the wheels touch down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49219869442267,"sku":"2026100009258-SECONDHAND","price":35.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f0a177c7-0288-45c4-92dd-58d90ced6de5.png?v=1788482965","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009258-secondhand-flying-hero-class-signed","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}