Worst Case Scenario: A Novel [Hardcover]

When a pilot suffers a heart attack at 35,000 feet, a commercial airliner filled with passengers crashes into a nuclear power plant in the small town of Waketa, Minnesotawhich becomes ground zero for a catastrophic national crisis with global implications.

The International Nuclear Event Scale tracks nuclear disasters. It has seven levels. Level 7 is a Major Accident, with only two on record: Fukushima and Chernobyl. There has never been a Level 8. Until now.  

In this heart-stopping thriller, ordinary peoplepower plant employees, firefighters, teachers, families, neighbors, and friendsare thrust into an extraordinary situation as they face the ultimate test of their lives. It will take the combined courage, ingenuity, and determination of a brave few to save not only their community and loved ones, but the fate of humanity at large.

#1 internationally bestselling author T.J. Newman is back withWorst Case Scenario, following her explosive debut thrillerFallingand its harrowing follow-upDrowning.

Worst Case Scenariois the best thriller Ive read so far this year.  A jetliner crashes in the worst possible locationand I mean the worstthe site of a nuclear plant.  Its a chilling idea with great characters and near-perfect execution. James Patterson    

T.J. Newman is a former bookseller and flight attendant whose first novel,Falling, became a publishing sensation and debuted at number two on the New York Times bestseller list. The book was named a best book of the year by USA Today, Esquire, and Amazon, among many others, and has been published in more than thirty countries. The book will soon be a major motion picture from Universal Pictures. T.J. lives in Phoenix, Arizona. Her second novel, Drowning, was released in May 2023 and became an instant l$