The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
25 October 2022
9780330457422400 pages
Synopsis
THE TOP TEN BESTSELLER
‘[McCarthy] writes prose as clean as a bullet cutting through the air and constructs tales as compelling as any you will read’ – Telegraph
A SUNKEN JET. NINE PASSENGERS. A MISSING BODY.
The Passenger is 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.
An appealing piece of work . . . gripping, with plenty of reflection and evocationThe Daily Telegraph
The Passenger is like a submerged ship itself; a gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song . . . It’s rich and it’s strange, mercurial and melancholicThe Guardian
A moving and characteristically disconcerting addition to the oeuvre of one of America’s greatest writersThe Irish Times
