The passengers are: a TV star, a pregnant young woman, a disabled war hero, an abused wife fleeing her husband, an illegal immigrant, a husband and wife - and parents of two - who are travelling in separate vehicles and a suicidal man. Now the public have to judge who should survive, but are the passengers all that they first seem?

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11 hours and 40 minutes
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John Marrs
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Kristin Atherton, see all
Audible release date

30 May 2019
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English
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Random House Audiobooks
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Unabridged
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Listening Length	11 hours and 40 minutes
Author	John Marrs
Narrator	Kristin Atherton, Roy McMillan, Clare Corbett, Tom Bateman, Patience Tomlinson, Shaheen Khan
Audible.in Release Date	30 May 2019
Publisher	Random House Audiobooks
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07N6F9DCR
Best Sellers Rank	#15,204 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #606 in Science Fiction (Audible Books & Originals) #630 in Suspense #5,931 in Science Fiction (Books)

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haritha

A gripping read!

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 30 April 2020

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John Marrs is becoming one of my favourite authors of the thriller genre! He comes up with such interesting premise and the storytelling keeps you completely hooked. This book was definitely entertaining and I did not see some of the plot twists coming ahead! For people who favour this genre of books are in for a treat!

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Krishnan Nair

Fun sci-fi read with interesting characters

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 1 January 2021

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I really enjoyed this book. This was an old-fashioned thriller with a good few twists along the way. It was quite fast-paced and entertaining.

Even towards the end, when I was worried that the author was going to give a slightly cliched ending, he gave us a final twist, which I appreciated.

Overall a very fun read.

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Vishwa Patel

Fast paced throughout

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 27 April 2020

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So yes this book held my attention throughout its 450 pages. This book is really fast paced and that is what a true thriller should be. However the big reveal didn’t turn out to be that big and were no climactic moments, which leave you at the edge of your seat. But overall a good read on;y beacuse it was paced really well and at no point felt boring even for a second.

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Mridula

Absolutely brilliant

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 5 April 2019

Its been a few days since I finished this book, and I still haven’t wrapped my head around the chain of events. ‘The Passengers’ is an intense, fast-paced, bone-chilling, conflicting and an outstanding modern-day thriller that takes us through the darker, more dangerous side of innovation and how humans wouldn’t mind playing ‘God’ now and then.

8 passengers who are supposed to die in the next 2 hours, an enthusiastic audience, and a bunch of lawmakers/judges are what comprises this story. The use of tactics and logic has been brilliantly done, which makes this thriller gripping right from the start. What astonished me the most is the author’s ability to keep the audience engaged to one storyline, all the while plotting a marvelous twist to the tale.

‘The Passengers’ adds a question mark to one’s morals, sense of judgment under pressure, the basis of artificial intelligence and social media as a whole. Here is a book that has been well planned and executed, a thriller that is thrilling and horrendous at equal measures and a cast that defines the grey zone.

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SVG

A fab read

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 24 December 2019

If there ever was a book I would be asked to pick in the thriller category which would cause my fingers to tremble with excitement, my breaths to stop, and my heart to race to save the passengers, it would be this book.

8 passengers in a driverless cars driven by AI, suddenly get hacked, and the car was on a collision course. All 8 were to die until the Hacker gave the people on the jury a choice to save one of them. Each passenger got a chance to present their life story. But were they honest? What would happen to them?

My first book by author John Marrs, this book exemplified everything I believed about the written word. Words have power, they could take me from the humdrum of life right on to the roads of London where the life of each passenger hung by a thread. The story was larger than life in its concept, fantastical even, but the delivery was a pure, highly concentrated adrenaline rush.

This book was the perfect proof of why I read to live. A book written in simple terms with a rising suspense and using hash tag trends of today, it was obvious the author was a master storyteller. I had no idea who the Hacker in the story controlled, but it was John Marrs who controlled me via the story.

Suspense and twists were the book's cornerstones along with the dynamic flourish that this story was written. The book was a thrill-a-second, jaw-dropping dynamo which caused my pulse to rise with every page. A brilliant read!!

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Sumit

A well-paced sci-fi thriller

Reviewed in India 🇮🇳 on 23 December 2020

In the near future, government-mandated self-driving cars become the norm in Britain—They were supposed to make the roads 95% safer for both passengers and pedestrians. Then one morning, someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars with their passengers, and they are set on a fatal collision course. They are told that they will probably be dead in several hours. All of this, of course, unfolds over social media, and the world finds itself captivated—particularly when the Hacker begins asking the audience, to vote on who lives and who dies. Almost everyone who has been kidnapped has a secret they don’t want to reveal—but the Hacker has secrets of his own. Now the public has to judge who should survive but are the passengers all that they first seem?

The Passengers has all the ingredients of an exciting thriller: A brilliant plot, some interesting characters who will keep you guessing, and some nice twist and turns which will keep you hooked till the end. The story uses technology as a backdrop and it feels like an episode straight out of Dark Mirror. Marrs taps into the most basic fears about the dark side of technology from the invasion of privacy to the mob mentality of social media, technology overriding laws of nature, and so on. This book asks many uncomfortable questions forcing you to think about the role of tech in our lives.

The story is fast-paced and the next shocking twist is always right around the corner. Despite technology playing a crucial part, the different characters are what really make the story really interesting. Another hallmark of John Marrs novels is that none of the characters are what they really seem, so you’ll be kept guessing what each character really is. Just when you think, you have sorted out the story, another twist will change the entire story.

The story goes on smoothly till the climax. I felt the climax was marred by too many twists than needed, so there were some plot holes, illogical explanations, and unanswered questions. But the story as a whole is highly entertaining so it did not matter too much in the end.

Overall, The Passengers is a well-paced sci-fi thriller with some fascinating characters. It has a very unique premise and an action-packed story that will keep you entertained right till the end.

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A captivating (and utterly terrifying) read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 5 April 2019

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Wow. An absolute thriller in the truest sense of the word. I have to say I’m a little obsessed by John Marrs’ books anyway so I would have purchased this regardless.
Whether you’re new to his style of writing or he’s one of your favourite authors - this is a must read!
I love the fact that it contains plot points that relate back to one of his previous books, The One. Having said that, you can read The Passengers as a stand alone. Actually, here come my first warning! Don’t read it alone!
It’s not a typical horror as in ghosts, ghouls, serial killers etc but it is utterly horrifying and thinking that the plot could actually be a reality one day sent shivers down my spine.
I can’t really talk a lot about the plot without giving away massive spoilers but it centres around a number of seemingly innocent Passengers who have been preselected to participate in a terrifying journey. Needless to say, all is not as it first appears and the twist at the end got me well and truly!
What I also loved about this is that John worked on this with his husband, John Russell. JR did the majority of the research - what an amazing team they make! I hope we see more collaborations like this.
Now, I’m just off to check my car still has a steering wheel and brakes....

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jonathan Hurford-Potter

Oh dear!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 19 April 2019

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I purchased this book based on its reviews. Alas it was a fairly shallow and predictable read that lacked depth and true pace. It was very disappointing and goodness knows how it has achieved so many high reviews. I simply cannot recommend this even at 99p!!

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Ratrunner

Interesting ideas but poorly written

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 12 June 2019

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Around 1800 people die on Britain's roads every year. My belief is that in the future, when driverless cars are the norm and casualty numbers are cut massively, people will look back at our current age with shock that we ever allowed error prone humans to drive these vehicles at speeds up to 70 mph with nothing to separate them from oncoming traffic, roadside obstacles etc but a bit of white paint or a kerb.

Marrs' book envisages such a future (though he doesn't mention casualty numbers past or present - why not? A bit of research would have added some credibility here) and gets into the moral issues that could govern their operation - ultimately if a car is going to crash how should it decide who to hit - the elderly pedestrian or the young cyclist for example?

I won't get into the plot, which ultimately gets frankly ridiculous, and very convoluted, but throughout I felt there was too much explaining and not enough showing. There's a lot of back story that comes out for the main characters, but instead of revealing it through the plot, Marrs simply describes it. Not the best way to tell a story in my opinion - show, don't tell!

Personally, I couldn't connect with the main character, Libby, and felt that some of the others (such as politician Jack) were just lazy caricatures or barely sketched out at all (the rest of the jury). But maybe that's just me.

This could have been so much better, so it gets three stars for the main idea, but nothing more.

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Matilda Wormwood

Driverless cars - are they as safe as the government believe?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 4 April 2019

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Holy Moly he's done it again!

What i love about the work of Marrs is when you think he can't produce another sensational book he does!

So, in 'The Passengers' we are introduced to a society in which driverless cars are the future. There are various stages of driverless cars but the book mainly focuses on a level 5 driverless car which will transport you to wherever you need to go. The government insists they are the safest way of transport has pushed for everyone to have a level five car.

Somewhat ironically, the story begins when eight passengers are informed that their car has been hijacked and they are going to die within the next two hours when they reach their destination.

We are then introduced to Libby, who is a member of the public who has been selected for driverless car jury service. The jury has to maintain whether it was the driverless car, or another factor which caused a fatal accident.

The story weaves in and out of the jury, with whom the hacker is communicating and the passengers. With more ups and downs than the big dipper I had no idea where this book was going and how it would conclude.

Fast paced, furious, and Marrs has one hell of an imagination. This book is going to top the bestseller charts for certain.

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H. Pettifer

Fast paced

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 9 April 2019

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The idea grabbed me but early in the book I nearly gave up as I realised the premise seemed wrong : every automated vehicle has a manual override for doors or way to smash windows in an emergency. It all seemed a bit over the top and anti AI. Somehow I didn't click with the characters either. Perhaps introducing so many major players meant they lacked depth. However, I enjoyed the book more as it progressed and the new information presented over time makes you think. Overall the book just didn't really click for me though. I even felt the ending would be better a page shorter.

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