The Passenger, Frank Tallis
The Passenger, Frank Tallis
List: $19.95 | Sale: $13.97
Club: $9.97

The Passenger
A Novel

Author: Frank Tallis

Narrator: Chris MacDonnell

Unabridged: 10 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/15/2016

Synopsis

This supernatural thriller from F. R. Tallis takes listeners beneath the wartime seas of the stormy North Atlantic in 1941, where not all those on board are invited.1941. A German submarine, U-330, patrols the stormy waters of the North Atlantic. It is commanded by Siegfried Lorenz, a maverick SS officer who does not believe in the war he is bound by duty and honor to fight in.U-330 receives a triple-encoded message with instructions to collect two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast and transport them to the base at Brest. A British submarine commander, Sutherland, and a Norwegian academic, Professor Bjørner Grimstad, are taken on board. Contact between the prisoners and Lorenz has been forbidden, and it transpires that this special mission has been ordered by an unknown source, high up in the SS. It is rumored that Grimstad is working on a secret weapon that could change the course of the war.Then, Sutherland goes rogue, and a series of shocking, brutal events occur. In the aftermath, disturbing things start happening on the boat. It seems that a lethal, supernatural force is stalking the crew, wrestling with Lorenz for control. A thousand feet under the dark, icy waves, it doesn’t matter how loud you scream.

About Frank Tallis

F. R . Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has received or been nominated for numerous awards, including the New London Writers’ Award, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Elle Prix de Letrice, the CWA Historical Dagger Award, and two Edgar Awards.

About Chris MacDonnell

Chris MacDonnell, winner of an Earphones Award for excellence and a SOVAS Award for best Classical Audiobook Narrator (The Wind in the Willows), has been an Actor and Narrator in the UK and USA for over forty years, working in London, LA, Regional Repertory Theatre, TV, Film, and BBC Radio drama.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on March 16, 2020

The year is 1941 and a German submarine, U471, patrons North Atlantic when a triple-encoded message reaches its commander Siegfried Lorenz. They are to collect two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast and transport them to the base at Brest. The prisoners are British submarine com......more

Goodreads review by Reading is my Escape on September 28, 2016

Read by flashlight (booklight)       This is why I chose to read this book (from the book flap): The new supernatural thrill from F.R. Tallis, who takes his readers under the wartime seas of the stormy north Atlantic in 1941. Where not all those on board are invited... ... disturbing things start happeni......more

Goodreads review by Carol on December 07, 2017

It's a good story and the events that unfold will leave the reader guessing about the two "passengers". I found this to not be actually about a supernatural happening but a much more subtle and intriguing story that focuses more on the boat’s crew and the psychological stresses of war...especially......more

Goodreads review by Simon on February 25, 2017

I really wanted to love this book, The Forbidden and The Sleep Room are both excellent but this isn't as good. The supernatural element didn't work for me it felt like it was shoehorned in amongst the many explosions, faulty equipment and mouldy food. I did love the character of Lorenz, definitely t......more

Goodreads review by John on January 02, 2017

I often ask myself in exasperated tones when I find books almost impossible, "Is it just me?" implying, of course, that it isn't and it's the fault of the writer. But this time I might have admit that it is just me--or Christmas in Buckland-in-the-Vale anyway. It's almost impossible to read here. On......more

Quotes

“Is it a WWII submarine story? Is it a horror story? Tallis wants us to work that out for ourselves…Fans of the German novel (and, later, movie) Das Boot will particularly enjoy this book’s almost palpable feelings of claustrophobia and impending disaster, and readers of WWII fiction will appreciate the level of detail the author brings to the story…It succeeds brilliantly.” Booklist (starred review)

“Clever and spooky. For Tallis, the darker recesses of the mind hold monsters enough. The novel is an elegantly constructed psychiatric Gothic, all spires and gargoyles and ghostly echoes—the sort of vast, dread edifice we sometimes build around ourselves when the lights go out.” New York Times Book Review

“Elegant prose stylist Tallis evokes both the eerie loneliness of life aboard a submarine and the pernicious creep of paranormal forces.” Kirkus Reviews

“A chilling tale of supernatural snooping. This horror story is undeniably hair-raising.” Shelf Awareness

Add to Cart
Add to Wish List