Summary

“You Are Released” begins with “Gregg Holder in Business” as Holder drinks scotch. The Captain announces that there was a “flash” at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam (435). Holder feels weary, even as the Captain announces that they will be landing in Boston ahead of schedule. In Arnold Fidelman in Coach,” Fidelman tries to comfort the girl sitting next to him. A large man across the aisle asks where she is from, and he is overt about his conservative political views. Fidelman is quick to be defensive. The man explains the attacks are most likely because of a failed assassination attempt on Putin.

In “Leonard Waters in the Cockpit,” Waters makes conversation with his female copilot. A flight attendant enters the cockpit, and a voice comes over the radio demanding all commercial flights be grounded for “an unscheduled world war” (442). In “Veronica...