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 a hardboiled noir thriller . . . What a glorious sunset song' - The Guardian

1980, Mississippi. It is three in the morning when Bobby Western ...