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The Passenger

By: Cormac McCarthy
Narrated by: Julia Whelan, MacLeod Andrews
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A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. The Passenger is a dark, hallucinogenic novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of Blood Meridian, No Country for Old Men and The Road.

1980, Mississippi. It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean. His dive light illuminates a sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box – and the tenth passenger.

Now a collateral witness to this disappearance, Bobby is discouraged from speaking of what he has seen. He is a man haunted: by the ghost of his father, inventor of the bomb that melted glass and flesh in Hiroshima, and by his sister, the love and ruin of his soul.

Traversing the American South, from the bars of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

The Passenger is book one in its duology. It is followed by Stella Maris.

©2022 Cormac McCarthy (P)2022 Penguin Randomhouse LLC

Critic reviews

"[McCarthy] writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read." (Telegraph)

"A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller... It’s rich and it’s strange, mercurial and melancholic." (Guardian)

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