MeltingPot

Mayhem disrupts the peaceful calm of Pisa’s Galileo Galilei International Airport when flight crew and passengers are unceremoniously dragged off into capture and held hostage for billions of dollars. From this violent turmoil an unlikely heroine appears. Over sixty, overweight, but by no means over the hill, Mo Armstrong Campbell protects her international brood. But who are they? What secrets do they hold? Who is the world famous computer expert? What’s the priest’s problem? Why does the Nanny cry? Why is the pilot sleeping? A million queries, but the fundamental question is, will they be rescued or escape before their attackers finish them off? As they move at breakneck pace through the back waters surrounding Pisa and into the mercantile thoroughfare of the Mediterranean, the hostages try to come to terms with their attackers, but are left aghast when they realise that nothing short of world peace is the ransom which must be met before they can see their families again.