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Dear Friends,
Accidental Heroes was an exciting and challenging book to write because the action and interactions happen on so many levels. It is inspired by, and reminiscent of, some of the challenges of traveling today, and at the same time it is reassuring, because it reminds us of how many agencies are involved to safeguard us when we travel. Mishaps can happen anywhere (you can slip in the bathtub at home too, or trip over your dog when you take him for a walk). But from the time we enter the security lines at any airportwhich seem so annoying as we take off our shoes, get slowed down as we wrestle other passengers for plastic bins to put our belongings inwe forget that those security measures are there for our safety (not just to annoy us), and that they do protect us from untoward things happening. And beyond that, there is airport security watching what goes on in the entire airport, Homeland Security and all the federal agencies, and highly trained people under that umbrella who are actually like guardian angels, unseen by us, watching over us even before we take off, during our flights, and until we leave the airport when we reach our destination. It really is reassuring.
And in the case of something unexpected happening, or even suspected, it is fascinating to know how many agencies and skilled people are involved to solve the mystery and the problem before something happens. Thats good to remember too.
I was fascinated by the different personalities involved, with the characters in the book. The very, very capable senior Homeland Security agent, at JFK Airport, whose confidence has been shaken by a recent incident, so he has to get it right this time. The psychiatrist who helps evaluate situations. The young female agent with multiple degrees but little experience. The young TSA agent, a single mother, who follows her instincts and is smart enough and brave enough to do so. Passengers, police, federal agents, the fantastic female exAir Force pilot, the crew, and passengers on the plane.
I also wanted to honor the fact that we never know how we will react to unusual situations. The meekest among us can turn out to have the courage of a lion, and in the toughest of times, we draw on resources we didnt even know we had. Many of us turn out to be accidental heroes when we least expect it. I hope youll enjoy the people you meet in this book, and the events that unfold as a network of people do their jobs with remarkable skill. Have a great time reading!
Love,
Danielle Steel
Accidental Heroes is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
Copyright 2018 by Danielle Steel
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
D ELACORTE P RESS and the H OUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
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Names: Steel, Danielle, author.
Title: Accidental heroes : a novel / Danielle Steel.
Description: New York : Delacorte Press, [2018]
Identifiers: LCCN 2017041767 | ISBN 9781101884096 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781101884102 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: TerrorismPreventionFiction. | Life change eventsFiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Contemporary Women. | FICTION / Sagas. | FICTION / Romance / Contemporary. | GSAFD: Romantic suspense fiction. | Mystery fiction.
Classification: LCC PS3569.T33828 A66 2018 | DDC 813/.54dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017041767
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Bernice Adams woke up, as she usually did, just before the alarm went off, so she didnt wake her six-year-old son, Toby. Some maternal instinct pulled her out of her dreams before the buzzer sounded. She smiled as she looked at him sleeping next to her in the queen-sized bed that had been a lucky find in a secondhand furniture store. Shed bought a new mattress for it that they had tried out together, and Toby said it felt like a cloud. It was a stretch for their budget, but she decided it was worth it. Toby needed to get to school rested so he could pay attention and do well. She wanted him to have every advantage she could give him.
She had managed to furnish the small one-bedroom apartment with hand-me-down furniture and what she found on the sidewalk on Tuesday nights, when people left out big furniture items they didnt want, for garbage pickup the next morning. It was always a treasure hunt. She had found her night tables that way, a blue dresser, and the kitchen table they ate on every day. The Formica was chipped around the edges, but the bright red looked cheerful in their tiny kitchen, barely big enough for her to cook in. She had painted the walls and some of the furnishings herself, and found the living room rug at Goodwill. All put together, it looked homey and cozy, and she had framed the Spider-Man posters Toby loved for their bedroom, and there was one of Batman and Robin over their bed.
Bernice was a single mother. Tobys father had taken off when she got pregnant at nineteen. Shed been working as a waitress by day, and going to City College of New York by night. She hadnt seen him since, although shed heard that he was married now and had three other children. She wanted no contact with him. Hed been a smooth talker, shed fallen for him, and the pregnancy was an accident. He had disappeared as fast as he could. Shed had Toby when she was twenty, and had managed parenthood on her own ever since.
Bernice was a survivor. More than that, she wanted to make something of herself, and set an example for her son, to show him that he didnt have to be limited by the world he was born into, and with an education, he could have a good job and a good life one day. It was what she aspired to herself.
Shed been raised in foster homes after her parents died when she was in her early teens. Some of the homes were awful, and some of them were okay, but she was determined that nothing like it would ever happen to her boy. Bernices only relative, her brother, Clive, had been in and out of prison for a dozen years since he turned eighteen, for credit card fraud, grand theft auto, and drug dealing, all the means of making a living he had learned on the streets. She hadnt seen him since she was sixteen and he was twenty, fresh out of prison on parole. She didnt want to see him again, and he knew nothing about his nephew. Clive wasnt an evil man, and hed been nice to her, to the best of his ability. He just didnt know how to get out of the trap he had grown up in. She wanted her life and her sons to be different.
The building they lived in was clean, and lived in by respectable families, on 125th Street. It had been built in the 1930s and must have been beautiful then. What had once been spacious, handsome apartments had been broken into small ones for low rents. Now it was shabby, and the people who had lived there, and could, had moved downtown. Other buildings near her had been renovated, and parts of her neighborhood were slowly becoming gentrified. Shed been fortunate to find an apartment she could afford on her salary. She managed to get by and take care of her son.
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