Five years after the crash of Flight 800, anti-terrorist task force members John Corey and Kate Mayfield pursue suspicions that the truth about the crash has been covered up at the highest levels of government and examine a private video tape that inadvertently caught the airliners final moments.

The last place Gus LeGarde expects to find his old friend Byron Cunningham is in a plane that crashes in a field near his farmhouse. But that's just the first surprise in a series of shocking events beginning with the discovery of a Monet painting crammed into the plane's fuselage. Is it real? Or fake? The trail leads Gus into a twisting trio of dangerous art world conspiracies.

"In 1966, The Wonder Boys, one of America's top rock bands, embarked on a flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks for a concert. However, their plane mysteriously vanished en route. Adding to the mystery, the band's manager, who opted out of the flight, disappeared the following day, leaving no trace. Fast forward nearly six decades to the present day. Bush pilot Scott Harper, accompanied by his recently adopted daughter Michaela and his former police...

"The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God"--