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 November 22nd, 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.
Cormac McCarthy wurde 1933 in Rhode Island geboren und wuchs in Knoxville, Tennessee auf. Für sein literarisches Werk wurde er mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet, unter anderem mit dem Pulitzerpreis und dem National Book Award. Die amerikanische Kritik feierte seinen Roman «Die Straße» als «das dem Alten Testament am nächsten kommende Buch der Literaturgeschichte» (Publishers Weekly). Das Buch gelangte auf Platz 1 der New-York-Times-Bestsellerliste und verkaufte sich weltweit mehr als eine Million Mal. Mehrere von McCarthys Büchern wurden bereits aufsehenerregend verfilmt, «Kein Land für alte Männer» von den Coen-Brüdern, «Der Anwalt» von Ridley Scott und «Ein Kind Gottes» von James Franco. Cormac McCarthy starb im Juni 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
