Gate 76 starts off as very engaging and immediately enthralling. It pulls you right in. The reader takes in the action of the first chapter from the eyes of Freddy Ferguson, a private investigator in the San Francisco airport, who immediately notices that something is "off" with a blonde woman ahead of him in the security line. She's with a sketchy-looking guy, who leaves her as she approaches a TSA agent. Once through security, Freddy notices that the blonde is being watched by a janitor and as soon as she boards a flight out of Gate 76 to Hawaii, the janitor pulls out a phone, calls someone, and leaves. Immediately afterwards, the blonde dis-embarks, goes to the bathroom, comes out as a brunette and boards a flight to Chicago. The next morning, it's on every newspaper and news channel that the flight to Hawaii was blown up over the Pacific Ocean, and it looks like the bomb was in the cargo-hold of the plane. You're immediately sucked into the action and want answers just as much as Freddy, and lucky for us readers, Freddy goes on a mission to investigate. However, from here the story veers too far from the main investigation at points and goes on too many tangents to maintain its initial captivation. There were parts of the book that could have been easily deleted. Nonetheless, I thought the story was unique and interesting, and I read along until the very end.
Thank you to BookishFirst for my copy of this book.
Thank you to BookishFirst for my copy of this book.