![]() ![]() ![]() Maggie has invited him at the last minute, feeling an inarticulate attraction to him. Family friends Ben and Sarah Kipling arrive for the flight, followed finally by Scott Burroughs, a painter. The family is very close and have been vacationing, though Maggie is feeling distant from her older husband. The family that has hired the plane arrives: David Bateman, a conservative media mogul, his younger wife, Maggie, and their two children, Rachel and four-year-old J.J., as well as their security chief and family friend Gil Baruch the family has had constant security ever since Rachel was kidnapped several years before. The crew is introduced as pilot James Melody, co-pilot Charles Busch, and flight attendant Emma Lightner. ![]() Hawley muses on how people who are perfect strangers find themselves together unpredictably. The novel opens with a private jet preparing to take off from Martha’s Vineyard. Hawley employs a character-centric approach combined with an unreliable element to craft a suspenseful story that plays with the tropes of conspiracy theory and whose structure and style are not dissimilar to the television writing Hawley is famous for. Before the Fall is a 2016 novel by Noah Hawley. ![]()
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