Book Review: ‘Departure 37: A Novel’ By Scott Carson

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The date is October 25, 2025, and airline pilots across the country have gotten calls from their mothers, living or dead, telling them not to fly, and thousands of flights are grounded. It’s because a B-52 bomber has been detected, that carries a hydrogen bomb, aimed for Cuba, that vanished in 1962. In Ash Point, Maine, Charlie Goodwin sees a balloon drifting and landing near her home, and she follows it and investigates it and also gets a message from her dead mother not to fly. She finds a radio, a watch and the date of 1962 on it. The story then has a dual timeline, starting in 1962, when Dr. Martin Hazleton has developed a top-secret project that involves time travel and how the plane arrives today in Ash Point and what it does when it lands. This is an intense, well-written thriller, with a nod to historical facts, that keeps you on the edge of your seat. A perfect summer read and one of the best books of the year.