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...John Cusack (Con Air, Grosse Pointe Blank) is Nick Falzone, an air traffic control freak who "pushes tin" at New York's Terminal Radar Approach Control center (TRACON). He directs planes coming into NYC airports, sings oldies when he's not rattling off instructions to airplane pilots and slurps coffee while directing planes to safe landings...
...Known as "The Zone," Nick is responsible for the busiest radar scope in TRACON. He lands all of Newark airport's planes, and is capable of handling heavy air traffic for hours on end. He's quick, he's sharp, and he's good. In this world of chaos and finite airspace, Nick is the best there...
...Needless to say, the Zone feels challenged. Russell's on new turf now, and he just better watch out. Nick doesn't like competition, especially in the way of seedy men who speak French. Both succumb quite naturally to a battle of the egos, a rivalry that promises to be...well, quite boring, actually...
Frank ("the Enforcer") Nitti Nicholas ("Little Nick") Corozzo Jack ("Machine Gun") McGurn Dominic ("Quiet Dom") Cirillo Fred ("Killer") Burke Liborio ("Barney") Bellomo...
...code to which he held himself and all others, a code of scrupulous honesty, precision, self-control, courage, skill and stoicism: and the code which governed his life also pervades his spare and detached writing, dictating not only the actions and responses of his heroes and heroines from Nick Adams through the protagonist known to the American high-schooler only as the Old Man, but also the shape of his sentences and the white spaces he substitutes for adjectives and adverbs...