The Passenger

by Cormac McCarthy

First published 2022

Salvage diver Bobby Western discovers a sunken jet, its nine passengers dead. But the pilot's bag, the black box, and the tenth passenger are gone. Shadowed by men with badges, the ghost of his father, and his troubled sister Alicia, Western finds himself entangled in a deadly conspiracy. As he uncovers the truth, he must confront his own troubled past and the madness that haunts his family.

Genres: adventure, mystery, crime, thriller

Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking

Tropes: family-drama, unreliable-narrator

Setting: United States

Period: Contemporary

383 pages · Hardcover · Knopf Publishing Group

Content warnings: mental-illness

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