The Passengers: A near-future thriller with a killer twist

Reviews

Liz

The jury is then informed that they, along with an eager public via social media, are to chose the first to die and then which single passenger should be saved using the information they’ve been given and interviews with the passengers themselves. The Hijacker’s voice is suddenly heard in the room. Anyone on social media can vote for who they want to survive. This latest novel was no different in that regard.

Lorena

I enjoyed each of the characters and the twists along the way. It gave us a connection to them as human beings so that when their lives were in danger we felt the terror along with them and were fraught with the same dilemma as the jurors in wondering who should be the one to live. I’m a huge fan of the author’s previous books so I jumped at the opportunity to be on the blog tour for The Passengers.

Emma's Biblio Treasures

I'm a huge fan of John Marrs, so I already had high hopes reading this book. Who is the person responsible? She is in the room when proceedings are suddenly suspended after the foreman, Jack Larsson, receives a call telling him about the news footage of the hijacked vehicles. This was a super quick read for me.

Turner

A fabulous, edge of your seat, up to the minute book that is impossibly to put down! John Marrs is one of my favourite authors and this book has again shown just how talented he is. From the moment the first passenger was told they might be dead in just hours I was on tenterhooks and couldn’t put the book down. Eight vehicles on their way to various destinations are taken oven by a mysterious Hacker who tells them that he has rerouted their destinations, and in two hours and thirty minutes it is highly likely they’ll be dead.

I finished it in a day. We get to know the eight passengers and some details of their lives: the chosen six were introduced in the first part of the book and The Hacker tells us about the random passengers in part two. It was everything I could have hoped for. Panic stricken and helpless, there isn’t much hope left for them to cling to.

As always there are some who don’t like the idea of self-drive cars, but most people are embracing this new technology, a technology they’ve been assured is completely safe and impossible to hack. With no way of contacting anyone for help, no way of slowing their cars, preventing the fates that are fast approaching, the passengers are at the mercy of strangers. Or at least that is what the government has told everyone. Their systems are hacked and they are told that they will die in the next few hours.