{"product_id":"the-passenger-cormac-mccarthy","title":"The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song’ – The Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1980, 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, The Passenger is book one in a duology. It is followed by Stella Maris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for Cormac McCarthy:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61246696554830,"sku":"9780330457439","price":6.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0842\/6546\/8238\/files\/9780330457439.jpg?v=1792149351","url":"https:\/\/littlelanebookshop.com\/products\/the-passenger-cormac-mccarthy","provider":"Little Lane Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}