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THE PASSENGER - CORMAC MCCARTHY KARTONIERT (TB)

A sunken jet  a missing body  and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all
understanding. From the bar rooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast
The Passenger is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy  the legendary author of No
Country for Old Men and The Road .  'A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller
. . . What a glorious sunset song' - The Guardian   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.   One of the final works by Cormac McCarthy  The
Passenger is book one in a duology. It is followed by Stella Maris .   Praise for Cormac
McCarthy:  'McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse  his books were terrifying and
absolute' - Anne Enright  author of The Green Road   'His prose takes on an almost biblical
quality  hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' - Stephen King  author of
The Shining   '[I]n presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose  [McCarthy] showed
readers the necessity of facing up to existence' - Annie Proulx  author of Brokeback Mountain

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