Thomas Block has written a number of aviation-oriented novels, many which have gone on to acquire best-seller status in numerous countries. His novel writing began with the publication of "Mayday" in 1979. That novel was rewritten with his boyhood friend, novelist Nelson DeMille in 1998 and remains on DeMille's extensive backlist. "Mayday" became a CBS Movie of the Week in October, 2005. Several of the other novels by Block include "Orbit" (a top bestseller in Germany, among other nations), "Airship Nine", "Forced Landing" (also done as a radio serialization drama in Japan), "Skyfall", "Open Skies" and "Captain". Thomas Block is still writing both fiction and non-fiction, and has edited and updated his earlier novels into ebooks in all the major formats and also into new full-sized (trade soft cover) printed versions. Block's magazine writing began in 1968 and over the next five decades his work has appeared in numerous publications. He worked 20 years at FLYING Magazine as Contributing Editor, and as Contributing Editor to Plane & Pilot Magazine for 11 years. Block became Editor-at-Large for Piper Flyer Magazine and Cessna Flyer Magazine in 2001. During his long career as an aviation writer he has written on a wide array of subjects that range from involvement with government officials to evaluation reports on most everything that flies. An airline pilot for US Airways for over 36 years before his retirement in April, 2000, Captain Thomas Block has been a pilot since 1959. Since 2002, he has lived on a ranch in Florida with his wife Sharon where they board, compete and train horses. Complete information (including direct links to booksellers) is available at http://www.ThomasBlockNovels.com or through the author’s additional website at http://www.FlyingB-Ranch.com. For Facebook users, complete information about Thomas Block Novels can also be found at two interlinked Facebook sites: http://www.Facebook.com/Captain.by.Thomas.Block http://www.Facebook.com/ThomasBlockNovels.
Airship Nine has been described as “Exciting, riveting, high altitude suspense” by none other than thrill-master Stephen King! Now, author Thomas Block has updated and edited this International bestseller ! Airship Nine is a tale rich in technological detail and vision, full of action, passion – and the eerie splendors of the Antarctic. Through their fading radio links connecting them to a dying world devastated by unbridled nuclear war, the men and women of Airship Nine – a new-era passenger-and-cargo blimp – and for those onboard the Soviet supply ship Primorye, the holocaust has suddenly and completely destroyed their homelands. The black clouds of nuclear winter are spreading rapidly across the globe, and their only hope for survival lay in the white ice fields ahead. “A chilling survival manual” said the London Sunday Telegram. “Block does a solid job” said the Kirkus Review. “The story is tautly told,” said the Pittsburgh Press. “An exciting science fiction thriller,” and “Pure tension in a successful plot,” said the German newspapers. “A timely, thought provoking, suspense-filled story. It is an exciting book,” said the Iowa Bookshelf.
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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Grey & blue covers in a blue pictorial dust jacket - now protected in a clear wrapper. 8vo, 286 pages. There is a portion of a bookplate on the first free end paper. N° de réf. du vendeur 095068
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Vendeur : GraceyBooks, Raleigh, NC, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition. First Printing with full number line 1 through 10 noted on the copyright page. Inscribed "To_ With Best Wishes Tom Block Dec/84" on the ffep. Book is Near Fine with the exception of a slight bump to the front bottom board. Dust Jacket is Near Fine with the exception of two 1/4" closed tears to the top of spine. It is not price clipped. All books shipped same day or next in a box with styrofoam peanuts. Signed by Author(s). N° de réf. du vendeur 000581
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Cloth Spine & Paper Cov Covers. Etat : VG+. Etat de la jaquette : G+. 286 pp, the book and contents are very clean and solid, the author has signed and dated an inscription on the front free endpaper, the dust jacket has overall scuffing and some light corner wear including a 1" closed tear on the upper left front cover corner. Author Signed and Dated Inscri. N° de réf. du vendeur 008757
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Vendeur : Past Pages, Oshawa, ON, Canada
Hard Cover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. First Edition 1st Printing. BOOK: Remainder Mark; Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Previous Owner Markings (Price Clipped); Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SYNOPSIS: When U.S. space platform GF-2, hovering 22,500 miles above earth, receives an excessive dose of X rays and accidentally releases its forty-eight nuclear-warhead missiles at their pre-programmed targets in the Soviet Union, Russian missiles immediately retaliate. In the twinkling of an eye, doomsday has become reality. With this, his greatest thriller of all, Thomas block has produced a tale rich in technological detail and vision, full of action, passion - and the eerie splendours of Antarctica. Here is the master of aero-suspense at the top of his powers, as he creates a future, but a future perilously like the present . . . riddled with dangerous rivalries, political conflict, international menace, and the imminent threat of Armageddon. Flying over Antarctica is Airship Nine-a futuristic commercial dirigible carrying cargo and passengers on a routine trip from South Africa to Australia. And sailing from an Antarctic harbour is the Soviet motor ship Primorye. Neither their captains nor the men and women who comprise their crews have any idea of the catastrophe that has just occurred. Will the devastation extend to the passengers and crews of the Russian and American ships? Or will these sworn global enemies be the sole survivors of the nuclear holocaust? Will they be distanced by a heritage of hatred or drawn together by their mutual responsibility to ensure the future of mankind? Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder. N° de réf. du vendeur 001497
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