For more than forty years air traffic controller Max McCoy led a life most men only dream about -- travel, adventure, intrigue, romance. But when he gets the highjack signal from American Airlines Flight 11 on the morning of 9/11, everything changes. In the aftermath of the crisis, he retires and becomes a recluse. He's given up on life and love, or so he says. Then he meets Alexa Cannes in a bicycling accident. A novelist seeking material for her next book, she decides his past contains all the elements of a bestseller and convinces him to reveal his life story. Over a series of dinners he...