This is a fascinating look at how passengers at an airport notice other passengers. The narrator is watching a blonde in line for Flight 76 and then notices that she leaves the flight at the last minute. She then walks into the restroom and changes her appearance. The narrator then watches her board a flight to Chicago. With a premonition that all is not well, he continues his flight to D.C. and gets a message from his boss to call right away. Flight 76 blew up in mid-air. What an explosive (pun intended) beginning to a book that seems to be the tale of a woman running from danger and a man who is equally determined to find her and help her.