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INTERNATIONAL THE PASSENGER - CORMAC MCCARTHY...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The first of a two-volume masterpiece  The Passenger series  from
t he Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • T he 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 YEAR  "Blends the
rowdy humor of some of McCarthy’s early novels with the parched tone of his more apocalyptic
later work." — The New York Times    Stella 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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