The Passenger
25 October 2022Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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...
Details
25 October 2022764 minutes
Julia Whelan, MacLeod Andrews
9781035006762Imprint: Picador
Reviews
An appealing piece of work . . . gripping, with plenty of reflection and evocationTelegraph
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 melancholicGuardian
A moving and characteristically disconcerting addition to the oeuvre of one of America’s greatest writersIrish Times
[A] gripping story, written in McCarthy’s trademark acerbic stylei newspaper
