The Passenger


A gripping new spy thriller that explores the labyrinth of conspiracy surrounding the Lockerbie bombing, following one man’s search for his son.

James Collard and his son Nick are flying from Frankfurt to New York for Christmas in 1988. A last-minute meeting means that Collard has to get off the plane in London; despite a warning from a strange old man in the airport, Nick continues on the flight.

Later that night Collard learns that the plane has exploded over Lockerbie.

Collard’s heartbreak is interrupted by sharp questions about his son. Was he – as an aggressive American investigator suggests – in some way involved? Was he duped into carrying the bomb? Or did he even get off the plane himself? In a desperate search for the truth, Collard is dragged into one of the great mysteries of the post-Cold War world, and the legacy of one of the century’s greatest spooks, James Jesus Angleton.













Author: Chris Petit
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: April 2006
ISBN: 074320946X
Agent: Gillon Aitken
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