The Passenger -- Cormac McCarthy, Hardcover

The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: 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.

Look for Stella Maris, the second volume in The Passenger series, on sale December 6th, 2022

1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illuminates the 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. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring him harm, Western is shadowed in body and spirit--by men with badges; 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.

Traversing the American South, from the garrulous barrooms of New Orleans to an abandoned oil rig off the Florida coast, The Passenger is a breathtaking novel of morality and science, the legacy of sin, and the madness that is human consciousness.

Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/25/2022
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.46h x 6.53w x 1.35d
ISBN: 9780307268990

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2022 pg. 2
Publishers Weekly 06/27/2022
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2022
Booklist 09/15/2022 pg. 19