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    "description": "<p><span>Mina is trying to focus on her job as a flight attendant, not the problems with her five-year-old daughter back home, or the fissures in her marriage. But the plane has barely taken off when Mina receives a chilling note from an anonymous passenger, someone intent on ensuring the plane never reaches its destination: \"The following instructions will save your daughter's life...\"</span><br /><br /><span>Someone needs Mina's assistance and knows exactly how to make her comply.</span><br /><br /><span>When one passenger is killed and then another, Mina knows she must act. But which lives does she save: Her passengers...or her own daughter and husband who are in grave distress back at home?</span><br /><br /><span>It's twenty hours to landing. A lot can happen in twenty hours.</span><br /><br /><span>For fans of the locked-room mystery of </span><span>One by One</span><span> and the heart-stopping tension </span><span>The Last Flight</span><span>, </span><span>Hostage</span><span> is an explosively addictive thriller about one flight attendant and the agonizing decision that will change her life&mdash;and the lives of everyone on-board&mdash;forever.</span></p>",
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