The Passenger

<p><b>A sunken jet, a missing body, and a salvage diver entering a conspiracy beyond all understanding. <i>The Passenger</i> is a dark, hallucinogenic novel from Cormac McCarthy, the legendary author of <i>Blood Meridian</i>, <i>No Country for Old Men</i> and <i>The Road</i>.<br><br>'What a glorious sunset song . . . It&rsquo;s rich and it&rsquo;s strange, mercurial and melancholic' &ndash; <i>Guardian</i></b><br><br>1980, Mississippi. It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wet suit and plunges into the darkness of the ocean. His dive light illuminates a sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flight bag, the plane's black box &ndash; and the tenth passenger.<br><br>Now a collateral witness to this disappearance,