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Title: The Passenger
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: F. R. Tallis
Narrator: Chris MacDonnell
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-15-16
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 7 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
This supernatural thriller from F. R. Tallis takes listeners beneath the wartime seas of the stormy North Atlantic in 1941, where not all those onboard are invited.
It's 1941. A German submarine, U-330, patrols the stormy waters of the North Atlantic. It is commanded by Siegfried Lorenz, a maverick SS officer who does not believe in the war he is bound by duty and honor to fight in.
U-330 receives a triple-encoded message with instructions to collect two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast and transport them to the base at Brest. A British submarine commander, Sutherland, and a Norwegian academic, Professor Bjrner Grimstad, are taken onboard. Contact between the prisoners and Lorenz has been forbidden, and it transpires that this special mission has been ordered by an unknown source high up in the SS. It is rumored that Grimstad is working on a secret weapon that could change the course of the war.
Then Sutherland goes rogue, and a series of shocking, brutal events occur. In the aftermath, disturbing things start happening on the boat. It seems that a lethal supernatural force is stalking the crew, wrestling with Lorenz for control. A thousand feet under the dark, icy waves, it doesn't matter how loud you scream.
Members Reviews:
Five Stars
great book
Subtle horror on a U-Boat
F.R. Tallis is a horror writer, but he isn't Stephen King. That's not a
criticism by any means, but rather a forewarning that if you're
expecting Stephen King's style of story-telling, this isn't it.
Tallis is subtle. Tallis writes from the assumption that horror is
internal, in the mind as much as in the external world. And it works.
"The Passenger" is something a little different for Tallis. It's a war
story, which he himself admits is in the vein of "Das Boot." It's about
German submariners in World War II. Some may (as in the case of "Das
Boot") object to a portrayal from the German point of view and the
sympathy shown for the Germans.
But to think that the novel is pro-Nazi would be to seriously
err. Tallis walks the fine line between showing feeling for the hapless
souls caught up in the war, and supporting the regime that drove
them. In the novel we come to care about the fate of the human beings on
both sides. The characters are well-drawn and three-dimensional.
The novel starts with U-330, commanded by Siegfried Lorentz, picking up
two very special prisoners in a high-seas transfer. After that, things
start to really go awry.
Quite a few pages are spent describing U-330 hunting its prey, British
ships, and then withstanding counter-attacks from destroyers or
anti-submarine aircraft. There are some close calls before U-330 returns
for some time in port, in France.
Strange things have begun to happen aboard the ship, and even during the
port call, they continue. Then, U-330 goes out on patrol again ...
There are no screaming monsters or possessed dogs. The horror in this
novel is pervasive, always lurking in the background, but seldom
explicit. Tallis shows his genius in his ability to carry along the
reader and develop the same sense of horror in the reader's mind as he
creates in the minds of the characters.
The ending comes as no surprise, but that's not a problem, as that sense
of inevitability is an essential part of the narrative.
