Accidental Heroes by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2018-03-20T00:00:00+00:00

“Landing at SFO,” Amanda answered her. “The flight left here at eight A.M.”

“Why three pilots?”

“We have a senior captain flying deadhead on the flight. He had a TIA on the ground two days ago, and they retired him on the spot. He’s flying home in the cockpit. His career is over, and he lost his wife to cancer last year. He’s a suicide risk too. Can you possibly come over and help me get through to the man in charge on this? We’ve got less than two hours to do it, with a hundred and eleven passengers and flight crew on a sold-out flight.”

“I’ll meet you at your office in five minutes,” she promised, and Amanda smiled, relieved that she had called her. She was sure Mildred could help her turn the tide. Amanda admired Mildred enormously and had read all her books, although she’d never worked with her before. But like Amanda, she was a woman functioning in a man’s world, and she knew how to deal with it. Amanda was still learning the ropes of how to make her male colleagues and superiors respect her, and she knew they didn’t and made fun of her behind her back. She was getting tired of it. She was always pushing the machine of bureaucracy uphill, while they pooh-poohed her theories and ignored her degrees in favor of their instincts and experience, which she knew were valuable but weren’t everything. And they refused to acknowledge that what she contributed was important too. She assumed it was only because she was female, and they were sexist.

True to her word, Mildred was in Amanda’s office five minutes later. Amanda introduced herself to the small, thin woman with well-cut white hair, and they walked into Ben’s office together where he was conferring with Phil, the head man on the scene, and Dave from airport security. They looked up, startled to see another woman come in with Amanda. Dave didn’t recognize her, but Phil did immediately. He had worked with her many times. Ben looked shocked to see her. Mildred greeted Ben in a cool, professional manner, and neither she nor Ben acknowledged the fact that she was the psychiatrist he had been seeing ever since the hostage situation had gone sour and he felt responsible for the deaths of sixteen people, which she’d assured him wasn’t true.

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