The Flight Attendant
A Novel
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The Flight Attendant
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Narrated by:
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Erin Spencer
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Grace Experience
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Mark Deakins
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By:
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Chris Bohjalian
About this listen
From the New York Times best-selling author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened.
Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His utter stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets.
Afraid to call the police - she's a single woman alone in a hotel room far from home - Cassie begins to lie. She lies as she joins the other flight attendants and pilots in the van. She lies on the way to Paris as she works the first-class cabin. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the gate. Soon it's too late to come clean - or face the truth about what really happened back in Dubai. Could she have killed him? If not, who did?
Set amid the captivating world of those whose lives unfold at 40,000 feet, The Flight Attendant unveils a spellbinding story of memory, of the giddy pleasures of alcohol and the devastating consequences of addiction, and of murder far from home.
©2018 Chris Bohjalian (P)2018 Random House AudioCritic Reviews
"Filled with turbulence and sudden plunges in altitude, The Flight Attendant is a very rare thriller whose penultimate chapter made me think to myself, 'I didn't see that coming.' The novel - Bohjalian's 20th - is also enhanced by his deftness in sketching out vivid characters and locales and by his obvious research into the realities of airline work." (Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post)
"An expertly turned thriller... [Bohjalian]'s back-loaded the story with twists, from ones that were hinted at early to left-field surprises. And the brisk and busy ending is a fireworks show of redemption, revelation and old-fashioned gunplay." (Mark Athitakis, USA Today)
"Readers who enjoyed the imperfect heroine in Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train and the anxiety-ridden paranoia of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment will be hooked by this murder mystery." (Library Journal)
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- Anonymous User
- 07-08-2020
will make a good movie
this was entertaining and I enjoyed it,. not brilliant but good fun . I can see Kelly Cuoco in the lead role.
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- Anonymous User
- 20-11-2019
good stuff
really enjoyed listening - pace of story is good and enjoyed the pre epilogue ending. definitely recommed
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- karen bell
- 02-09-2020
A real page turner
Really enjoyed this book -so full of action but not predictable like do many of this genre. Kept finding reasons to head out in my car to enjoy another chapter!
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- Jennifer
- 20-06-2022
Aerial Train Wreck
Party protagonist in the wrong place at the wrong time. Like a cat with nine lives... good twist at the end.
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- Kat
- 11-07-2023
Tried but the narrator was not for me.
I've tried this one a few times but the narrator is just not for me. I recommend trying the audio sample before buying to avoid the same mistake.
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- Amazon Customer
- 16-01-2021
Not the best
Not very good the show is better. Thought it was going to be a lot more exisiting. Lots of unnecessary writing like Elena, who I thought would’ve been a bigger part to the story than considering there was so much background information about her. Very unnecessary.
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