By the Rivers of Babylon

By the Rivers of Babylon is a 1978 thriller novel by Nelson DeMille.

The plot focuses on two new Concorde jets that are flying to a U.N. meeting that will bring peace to the Middle East. However, en route to the meeting, the crews are advised by radio that bombs were hidden during the aircraft's manufacture, and they are forced on to an alternate route. One jet ignores warnings and is destroyed by remote control, and the other crash lands near the ruins of Babylon. Once crashed, the occupants of the jet must defend themselves against an army of Palestinian troops while the Israelis attempt to mount a rescue mission.

External links

• By the Rivers of Babylon on Nelson DeMille's Official Website

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Novels by Nelson DeMille

Joe Ryker

• The Sniper (1974)
• The Hammer of God (1974)
• The Agent of Death (1974)
• The Smack Man (1975)
• The Cannibal (1975)
• The Night of the Phoenix (1975)

John Sutter

• The Gold Coast (1990)
• The Gate House (1998)

Paul Brenner

• The General's Daughter (1992)
• Up Country (2002)

John Corey

• Plum Island (1997)
• The Lion's Game (2000)
• Night Fall (2004)
• Wild Fire (2006)
• The Lion (2010)
• The Panther (2012)
• Radiant Angel (2015)

Stand-alone

• By the Rivers of Babylon (1978)
• Cathedral (1981)
• The Talbot Odyssey (1984)
• Word of Honor (1985)
• The Charm School (1988)
• Spencerville (1994)
• Mayday (1998)
• The Cuban Affair (2017)

Film adaptations

• The General's Daughter (1999)
• Word of Honor (2003)
• Mayday (2005)

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