The Passenger

by Chris Petit

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Genres: Fiction

480 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2004

About the author

English novelist and filmmaker.

Reviews

[SabrinaJaleesa · Rating 1 out of 5]

What is this book? I have no words. First let me start by saying that this is not at all the kind of book I usually read. I generally avoid conspiracies because I tend to lose the plot pretty quickly. This book made it's way onto my shelf when I got it from a colleague so I figured I would give it a go. But it wasn't just the conspiracy part of the book that I did not like.
I had no emotional connection to any of the characters. In fact, the only emotional response I had to this book was my association of the plot with the crash of MH17 of nearly two years ago in which many of my countrymen died. That, and the eventual shouts of frustration. The writing felt patchy, as if it the story had been glued together by a child. It was not appealing. And neither was the plot. There were more characters than I could keep track off and the plot changed so many times it made my head hurt. In the end I just skimmed through the pages, but there was only more frustration because you never really find out what happened. In fact, the end makes you question everything you have just read. What a waste of time.

[Marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This can nearly be regarded as a nostalgia trip as the cold war seems such a long time ago. It is not so much as it was badly written it is just that it lost my interest. It all just seemed too much and too forced.
It was all about conspiracy theories centred around palestinians and iranians which was a little irritating considering that they jailed a libyan for it (sorry the book is a based on Lockerbie). The standard stuff about spy masters going over board and corrupt state apparatus.
I think I have gone beyond this kind of stuff if you start believing in it then you dorwn in paranoia and if you don't buy it then it is just boring

[Duzzlebrarian]

This is the first time I've ever given a review to a book's cover without having read the book. The Simon & Schuster hardcover edition has the byline "The thinking man's Andy McNab."

What, women don't read thrillers? That's news to me.

And while I know there are a lot of old idiots out there who refuse to read any book that even hints at the involvement of the other half of the human race, surely Simon & Schuster could have found less offensive way of saying "Smarter than McNab"?

[Andrew Male · Rating 4 out of 5]

The ultimate underrated thriller as almost nobody rates it. I loved the bleak hallucinatory landscapes of Petit's cold world, where conspiracy theories and true facts reflect back one one another; a Ballardian hall of mirrors comprised of madmen, drones and ghosts. I revelled in the crumbling sanity and blatant unreliability of it all.