Airport by Arthur Hailey
Airport, the book that created the disaster genre, was a re-read. I wanted something that would capture my attention, which it did. It starts off slowly and goes into too much detail about actual airport operations at some points, but it does a glorious job of building suspense by converging storylines. You see it coming; they see it coming; but no one can stop it.
The funny stuff is when he pontificates on the future of airports. It’s funny because he’s so wrong. It would certainly be a more exciting book with less airport background, but I suppose Hailey meant it to be a serious book of its time and not the start of a new type of shlock.