Operation Cancún
Mission Uncontrollable - Three Nights, Two Hangovers & One Very Confused Captain.: The outrageous, light-hearted comedy that proves holiday flights are a special kind of hell.
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Holiday flights are chaos. This crew just makes it funnier.
When Captain Daniel Mercer takes Flight 482 to Cancún, he expects sunshine, cocktails, and maybe a quiet nap. Instead, he finds himself trapped in a sunburnt circus of unfiltered adult humour: unhinged passengers, exhausted crew, questionable decisions, and a blow-up doll named Sandra who somehow becomes the emotional centre of the entire trip.
From poolside disasters to tequila-fuelled meltdowns, from stag-do stupidity to mid-air arguments between people who should never have booked seats together, Daniel quickly realises he's not flying an aircraft - he's babysitting chaos at 38,000 feet.
With a crew who are one delayed flight away from a group breakdown, and passengers who behave like they've left their common sense at the departure gate, this laugh-out-loud novel lifts the curtain on the madness of holiday travel. It's outrageous, warm, painfully relatable, and just the right amount of inappropriate.
Perfect for fans of light-hearted adult humour, aviation comedy, and anyone who's ever worked with - or travelled alongside - the general public.
Fasten your seatbelt. This flight is ridiculous in all the best ways!
A lovely easy read to enjoy on a flight or around the pool.
David Brown
David Brown (MA Oxon) is an Associate Professor at Adelaide Law School. He has taught and researched in the areas of property and insolvency, corporate and commercial law, equity, succession, and secured transactions for over thirty years in four countries. He has authored and co-authored leading works on land law, insolvency law and (with A Duggan) Australian Personal Property Securities Law (Lexis Nexis, 2nd ed, 2016). David has advised the New Zealand government and New Zealand Law Commission on insolvency law and has been a consultant to the Australian Financial Security Authority on the Personal Property Securities Act 2009 (Cth).
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