The Passenger

by F R Tallis

Overview

The chilling new horror novel from the highly acclaimed author of The Sleep Room and The Voices.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447236047
Publisher:	Picador USA
Publication date:	05/04/2017
Edition description:	Main Market ed.
Pages:	386
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

F.R.Tallis is a writer and clinical psychologist. He has written self-help manuals, non-fiction for the general reader, academic text books, over thirty academic papers in international journals and several novels. Between 1999 and 2013 he has received or been shortlisted for numerous awards, including the New London Writers' Award, the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, the Elle Prix de Letrice, and two Edgars. His critically acclaimed Liebermann series (written as Frank Tallis) has been translated into fourteen languages and optioned for TV adaptation. The Forbidden, his ninth novel, is a horror story set in nineteenth-century Paris and this, The Sleep Room, is his tenth.

Editorial Reviews

A chilling tale of supernatural snooping. This horror story is undeniably hair-raising.

Shelf Awareness

F.R. Tallis does an excellent job of evoking the claustrophobic feel of living in a metal tube with a thousand feet of water pressing down on you.

Historical Novels Review

Gripping. Dialogue is fast paced, and the action is vivid and realistic. A range of paces and mix of themes, from the action of war to romance between battles, make this a story that is full of adventure and more.

Foreword Reviews

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)

Tallis is a clinical psychologist, which is reflected in his deft character development and realistic dialogue in The Passenger.

Sacramento Bee

What we have here is a proper scare-your-socks-off horror novel.

The Financial Times

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.

The New York Times Book Review

If you’re looking for the best in popular fiction,
Tallis is well worth seeking out.

The Washington Post