Eye of the Storm

From page one, we know how a pair of heavily armed hijackers boarded Airmex's Flight 246, but we don't know who they are. Where do they intend to go with the twin turboprop aircraft, its nine passengers and three crew members? And why was this domestic Mexican airline the target? When they force the crew to land at a remote desert strip--in a violent storm--and escape with two of the crew as hostages, more disturbing questions arise: The FBI insinuate that Captain Bud McGuire flight attendant Esperanza Martin may have known the hijackers. Impossible--but then why haven't they, or their bodies, been found? First Officer Peter Vogel returns to his girlfriend in El Paso, to find federal agents watching their house. He refuses to accept the FBI's suspicions, even as more evidence emerges to shake Peter's confidence in his friend McGuire and the gorgeous Esperanza.