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FREE FALL begins when Kate Page, a reporter for Newslead, a global wire service, hears a report on the agency’s scanner that a plane headed for La Guardia is in trouble. After a brief Internet search, she finds a cab and rushes to the airport.
Kate is an amazing reporter, with contacts everywhere and excellent research skills, a woman who can pull all of her info together quickly and get it out on the wire. She is the first to report on a very disturbing air incident. An airplane began to lose control; one wing dipped until it was pointing to the earth, then the other wing dipped, followed by the plane taking a 10,000 foot dive towards the earth, before the pilot could regain control.
Newslead, Kate’s employer, is suffering from the failing print media crisis, and to make matters worse, her immediate boss is an over-entitled and inexperienced young woman who got her job through nepotism. Adding to the mix is the looming threat of terrorist attacks, especially on airplanes after 9/11. And of course, the airline and the airline industry worldwide is trying to downplay the incident Kate is investigating, blaming the pilot, or clear-air turbulence, whatever that is.
Credit goes to Rick Mofina for making all of this an understandable adrenaline-packed ride. Soon the National Transportation Safety Board and the FBI become involved and Kate is sidelined, that is, until she receives an anonymous message from "We are Zarathustra, Lord of the Heavens." Then another plane goes down with loss of life and another message comes from Zarathustra.
Kate remains at the center of this story, although she is not the lead. Rather she is that dream investigative reporter, something that may soon become extinct in our cable news network world. She follows leads, gets interviews that no one else gets, and begins to unravel the very complex web that hides the villains.
And they are not very nice villains, fueled as they are by philosophers like Nietzsche and his superman theories. Ruthless would be a polite way to describe them. As Kate gets closer to the villains, she finds herself on a flight from LA to New York. She is in the middle of an impending incident and witnesses the weirdest and most thrilling air rescue ever imagined.
Rick Mofina and his reporter Kate Page have another hit on their hands. Be prepared to stay up late to finish FREE FALL. You won't regret it.
§ Susan Hoover is a playwright, independent producer and retired college English teacher. She lives in Nova Scotia.
Reviewed by Susan Hoover, September 2016
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