{"product_id":"passenger-2","title":"Passenger","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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, \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtakingly dark novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of \u003ci\u003eNo Country for Old Men \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Road\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A gorgeous ruin in the shape of a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song’ – \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of the final works by Cormac McCarthy, \u003ci\u003eThe Passenger\u003c\/i\u003e is book one in a duology. It is followed by \u003ci\u003eStella Maris\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePraise for Cormac McCarthy:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Green Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power'' – Stephen King, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Shining\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003ci\u003e Brokeback Mountain\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57397911912830,"sku":"NW9780330457439","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780330457439.jpg?v=1778604306","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/passenger-2","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}