Path of the Assassin

A lot of events in the book are presented as plausible yet aren't. An example. In the scenes involving the plane hijack, after the female character is able to struggle from her would be rapitst, and is about to shoot him, two other hijackers come from behind her and two shots are heard. They both missed and instead of firing again, they ran towards her. She had enough time to turn around, drop to the floor, and kill them both. Later we find out the hijackers were highly trained terrorists.... OK.