Passenger - Couverture souple

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 the crash site to search for his son's body, only to become the target of hardened security men who view his last-minute change of plan with suspicion. Worse, they seem determined to prove his son was part of a plot to destroy the airliner.
The few remaining certainties of Collard's life are shattered as he is shown how little he really knew about his son. Now it seems 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 the investigation and a personal nightmare which takes an innocent civilian into a treacherous international underworld of intelligence agents and terrorists. The deeper Collard gets, the more he exposes the official version as a lie, but who will believe him? 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.

'An impressive tour de force of historical, political and criminal skulduggery, a kaleidoscopic collage of conspiracy and betrayal' GUARDIAN
'A dark journey into the wilderness of mirrors inhabited by the intelligence services…a psychological odyssey into a world of deception' ECONOMIST

* Praise for THE PASSENGER:
- 'An impressive tour de force of historical, political and criminal skulduggery, a kaleidoscopic collage of conspiracy and betrayal' GUARDIAN
'A skilful, unsettling work, whose narrative shifts and fractures until the book's surprisingly poignant denouement. While politicians stumble, it is left to novelists to make sense of the world. This book shows how' ECONOMIST
- 'The mother of all conspiracy theories' THE TIMES
- 'An adventure story but also a sophisticated, serious 'think piece' with multiple messages, all cynical, worldly and credible' LITERARY REVIEW