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The best- se lling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume master piece: 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.
1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the Coast Guard tender into darkness. His dive light illu mi nates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes dev oid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot’s flightbag, the plane’s black bo x , and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to mac hinations 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 aband one d 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.
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