num_pages: 352
description: The "hugely satisfying" story ( The Boston Globe) of one man’s search for the truth about his brother—and himself.David Dornstein was twenty-five years old, with dreams of becoming a great writer, when he boarded Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21, 1988. Thirty-eight minutes after takeoff, a terrorist bomb ripped the plane apart over Lockerbie, Scotland. Almost a decade later, Ken Dornstein set out to solve the riddle of his older brother’s life, using the notebooks and manuscripts that David left behind. In the process, he also began to create a new life of his own.
language: English
title: The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story
titlecomplete: The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story
genres: Biography, True Crime, History, Autobiography, Tragedy, Death, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Aviation, Memoir
ratings_count: 601
publisher: Vintage