Shytorque,
Now you have ruined it! I was so looking forward to another good ‘hot start’ novel.
They also make such good movies after a Hollywood (or even Bollywood) screenplay writer gets hold of it. I love those fade back, slow motion, sequences of the rapidly rising TOT needle. The part where the flames belch out of the jet pipe can be turned into a tremendous special effects sequence. ‘Hot Start’ movies keep me awake at night and give me cold shivers. And as you mentioned earlier the Oscar nomination for the Sound Editor with his Bell 47 sound effects leaves me in tears.
SH