Scott Burroughs survives a plane crash, and rescues a little boy. Everybody else in the plane dies. One of the passengers was CEO of a TV news channel, and in the aftermath of the crash, a news anchor goes all out to spin the story into an hysterical and squalid epic. As the survivors struggle with their shattered lives, the lives of the victims are described, and the crash is investigated. What was the cause? Was it an accident or and act of terrorism or something else?

A brilliant, meaty, chunky, intellectual, heart-filled, character-driven novel, as much about the differences between the people who grow and mature and people whose development seems stunted and the damage they inflict in their heedless narcissism as it is about who done it and why. It's also about lots of other things, including art and entertainment, money and morality, class and family. It's a incredibly satisfying read.