Soon Bobby is beset by suited men-agents of an unnamed government entity-flipping their badges at him and asking him questions. “You think there’s already been someone down there, don’t you?” he asks. And a 10th passenger, listed on the manifest, is missing completely. The plane’s black box has been neatly removed from the instrumentation panel. Their mouths open, their eyes devoid of speculation.” In addition to the oddly intact fuselage, other things are out of place. When the pair finds the wreck, they encounter nine bodies sitting buckled in their seats, “their hair floating. under the surface to assess the situation. One night Bobby and his dive partner receive a strange assignment: a small passenger jet has crashed in the water off the coast of Pass Christian, Miss., and they must dive 40 ft. In The Passenger, the first of the two books, Bobby Western is a 37-year-old deep-sea salvage diver operating mostly in the Gulf of Mexico-dangerous but lucrative work that’s not unlike exploring a foreign planet.
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