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The Passenger
Author: Chris Petit

Publisher: Pocket Books
ISBN: 9780743478588
Pages: 400
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"James Collard and his son are scheduled to fly to New York together for Christmas but he changes his mind at the last minute, leaving his son to go on alone." "A bomb explodes on their US airliner, killing all on board. Collard goes to search for his son's body, only to become the target of hardened security men who seem determined to prove his son was part of a plot to destroy the airliner." "The few remaining certainties of his life are shattered as he learns that his son might not have been on the plane after all and may be alive." "Determined to find his son, innocent or guilty, Collard is lured into a personal nightmare which takes an innocent civilian into a treacherous underworld of intelligence agents and international terrorists. The deeper Collard gets, the more he exposes the official version as a lie. Isolated and afraid, he knows he and his son are as expendable as the victims of the crash. A ruthless professional, with a deep history of covert activity, is desperate to frame them in a cover-up that goes all the way to the top, and - deadliest of all - the bigger the cover-up, the more personal it gets."