Showing results for "The-Passenger" in Genre Fiction

Amanda is a hardworking single mum, completely focused on her job and her daughter, Louise. She’s been saving for years, and now, finally, she can afford to give up work and chase her dream. But then, on her commute home from London to Brighton, she meets a charming stranger - who seems to know everything about her. He delivers an ultimatum. She needs to give him the code for the safe where she keeps her savings before the train reaches Brighton - or she’ll never see Louise again.

In taut and stylish prose, The Passenger Seat examines how men learn and perform masculinity. Rejecting easy answers, it keeps our eyes trained on the vanishing point where vulnerability edges into violence, alienation into aggression.

Sarah and Hannah are on a cruise from San Diego, California, to Sydney, Australia. Sarah, Hannah's grandmother, is returning to the country of her birth, a place she hasn't seen since boarding the USS Mariposa in 1945. Then she, along with countless other war brides, sailed across the Pacific to join the American servicemen they had married during World War II. Now Hannah is the same age Sarah was when she made her first journey and, in hearing Sarah tell the story of her life, realises the immensity of what her grandmother gave up.

When Leah caught the train that day, it should have been the escape she longed for. A new start, away from the terrible things she had done. She had no idea how that jounrey would change her life forever... Because when the train is involved in a terrible crash, Leah is given a moment to reassess her life. Can she make amends for what she did? Can she start again?

Jammer Davis has spent most of his life investigating aircraft accidents. When a small regional jet disappears over the jungles of Colombia, it is a tragedy like dozens of others he has seen...but for one terrible detail, his young daughter, who was en route to a semester abroad in South America, is listed on the passenger manifest.

พลันที่ข้อความถูกส่งออกไป วินาทีนั่นเอง ปีกเครื่องบินระเบิดเสียงดังสนั่น เสียงหวีดร้องดังขึ้นตามด้วยเสียงสัญญาณเตือนภัยทันใดนั้น เหนือที่นั่งผู้โดยสาร หน้ากากออกซิเจนหลุดพ้นผลัวะลงมาทว่าไม่มีผู้โดยสารคนใดแม้แต่คนเดียวได้มีโอกาสสวมมัน สิ่งสุดท้ายในห้วงความคิดของ "จริม" ซึ่งพร่าไปด้วยแสงเจิดจ้าและเสียงระเบิดที่ลั่นเปรี๊ยะในแก้วหู ขณะมองผ่านหน้าต่างออกไปแล้วเห็นขอบฟ้าเมืองมรดกโลกเอียงลาดแผ่นดินพุ่งเข้าหาอย่างรวดเร็วเขาน่าจะได้มีโอกาสบอกรักภรรยา และกอดลูกชายก่อนตาย!!!