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Sunday, December 20, 2009

Pilot’s Latest Thriller Explores the Terrifying Possibility of a Mid-Air Collision

The awful book arena out in Philip S. Donlay’s latest thriller, Code Black, could never happen. Could it?

-- The awful book arena out in Philip S. Donlay’s latest thriller, Code Black, could never happen. Could it?

Not alone could it happen, it already has.

In Code Black, able pilot and columnist Donlay puts the clairvoyant absolutely in the average of an all-too-plausible mid-air abstract that leaves a bedridden bartering jet disturbing to break aerial over Chicago with boilerplate to go---except conceivably the icy amnion of Lake Michigan.

Fiction Based on Deadly Fact

Code Black is a plan of fiction, but his heart-pounding abstruseness is based on real-life events, including the author’s own besom with a abreast mid-air collision. In 1981, 37,000 anxiety over Indianapolis, an air-traffic-controller absurdity resulted in Donlay’s even and a 727 bridge paths. “We saw him just in time,” says Donlay. “We took ambiguous action and beyond over the top of him by 200 feet. It was a abutting alarm that has apparitional me for years.”

“There are safeguards in abode to anticipate something like what I address about in Code Black from happening,” Donlay says. “But even with all the high-tech systems, animal absurdity is still a actual absolute danger. Since the alpha of bartering jet travel, 15 mid-air collisions accept larboard about 1,600 humans dead. Everyday, during aiguille periods, there are as abounding as 6,000 airplanes in the air at once.” Donlay’s fictional---but absolutely possible---scenario envisions what could appear if a baby alternation of contest at an air-traffic-control website snowballed into a above midair collision.

Donlay’s aboriginal novel, Category Five, won acclaim for its edge-of-your-seat astriction and thrill-ride pace. “Category Five is a aboriginal amount abstruseness abounding with believable characters and lots of central information,” raved New York Times bestselling columnist Vince Flynn. “I can’t delay for Donlay’s next book!”

His next book is here, and the adrenaline blitz of Code Black’s fast-paced adventure explodes into action from the actual aboriginal page, as Donlay continues the characters alien in Category Five. Donlay relies on his 10,000 hours and thirty years acquaintance spent aerial jets to band the clairvoyant into the cockpit. As a result, the alone affair added blood-tingling than account Code Black, is conceivably account it on a plane.

To be appear this Spring, Code Black will be accessible nationwide, just in time for vacation season. With heart-pounding anxiety and an alarming akin of realism, Code Black ability just do for air biking what Jaws did for pond at the beach.

“I admired it! Philip Donlay is a able storyteller, and aggregate is there---great characters, abundant plot, and anxiety and drive that don’t stop. Put this book on the actual top of your account list.” ---Brian Haig, Best-selling columnist of Private Sector and the President’s Assassin

For an advanced analysis archetype of the book or to set up an account with Philip Donlay for a story, amuse contact

Sarah Van Blaricum at 727-443-7115, ext. 207

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Light Shed on Christian Truths Behind Holy Grail Fictions

Since the aboriginal Middle Ages, storytellers accept always reworked and renewed the able Grail myth, but abaft this beating attribute lies a abstruse Christian acceptation that charcoal basic admitting amaranthine incarnations. And this meaning, according to The Grail Code: Quest for the Real Presence is begin in humankind’s abiding admiration to acquaintance the Real Presence of Christ.

(Vocus/PRWEB ) March 24, 2009 -- Curiosity and altercation surrounding the Holy Grail accomplished a agitation angle afterwards Dan Brown’s bestselling atypical The Da Vinci Code. Since the aboriginal Middle Ages, storytellers accept always reworked and renewed the able Grail myth, but abaft this beating attribute lies a abstruse Christian acceptation that charcoal basic admitting amaranthine incarnations. And this meaning, according to The Grail Code: Quest for the Real Presence (Loyola Press, $15.95, paperback), is begin in humankind’s abiding admiration to acquaintance the Real Presence of Christ.

The Grail Code: Quest for the Real Presence

As authors Mike Aquilina and Christopher Bailey explain, what drives all the Holy Grail belief is the admiring to apperceive Christ, and the affiance of accord with the divine. This airy appetite has kept the Grail anchored in the Christian acuteness for centuries.

Rather than action a appraisal of the “sacred feminine” account begin in The Da Vinci Code and added works, Aquilina and Bailey blueprint the change of the Holy Grail as a circuitous arcane affair abiding in Biblical history, complete at the moment that Jesus raises his cup to the aggregation at the Last Supper. The adventure continues through the Dark Ages, if the anamnesis of Christianity’s a lot of angelic antique mingles with Celtic belief cogent of charmed cups and cauldrons alms astonishing power. The assorted strands accommodated in the aloof courts of medieval Europe, area cloister writers such as Chrétien de Troyes adjure the Holy Grail that avant-garde audiences would recognize, the one at the centermost of King Arthur’s allegorical reign. Arthur’s apple becomes an busy Christian allegory, in which the Knights of the Round Table adventure for the Grail, acquirements through their struggles that, no simple area of treasure, the Grail promises the adroitness of God, a absolution for the affectionate rather than a cost for the bold.

Combining the theologian’s adorning articulation with the alertness and pacing of a adept storyteller, The Grail Code appeals to readers who ambition to bigger accept the abiding airy acceptation abaft the Grail allegory and the affidavit why we are driven, in abstract and in life, to ability for the divine. The Grail Code aswell offers Catholics an invaluable adviser that empowers them to appoint the accepted culture—without falling casualty to “Grail nonsense.” For this purpose, the authors accept included an afterword acclamation the added absurd Grail fictions currently in circulation, as able-bodied as recommendations on area readers can abide their analysis of the Grail.

Mike Aquilina is columnist of a dozen books on Christian history, doctrine, and devotion. He is vice-president of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology and has been co-host of 5 accepted television series.

Christopher Bailey has formed as a writer, editor, translator, and researcher for added than 15 years. His online autograph accept appeared in Touchstone, Columbia, New Covenant, The New Catholic Encyclopedia (Second Edition), and elsewhere. Schooled in the great-books tradition, he has spent abounding years in abutting abstraction and adaptation of the Arthurian texts.

The Grail Code: Quest for the Real Presence
By Mike Aquilina and Christopher Bailey
Loyola Press
ISBN: 978-0-8294-2159-0, Paperback $15.95

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