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THE PASSENGER - CORMAC MCCARTHY GEBUNDEN

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece  The Passenger series  from
the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • The story of a salvage diver  haunted by loss 
afraid of the watery deep  pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding  and longing for a
death he cannot reconcile with God. A NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARBlends the rowdy
humor of some of McCarthy’s early novels with the parched tone of his more apocalyptic later
work. —The New York TimesStella Maris  the second volume in The Passenger series  is available
now.1980  PASS CHRISTIAN  MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the
jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light
illuminates the 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. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only
bring him harm  Western is shadowed in body and spirit—by men with badges  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 garrulous barrooms 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.

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