Many thanks to NetGalley, Doubleday and Chris Bohjalian for the opportunity to read and review his latest novel. I'm a big fan of Bohjalian and loved this thriller!
Cassie is a flight attendant and has been with her airline long enough that she gets all the seemingly exotic flights - Dubai, Rome, Paris. But Cassie has an issue - she's an alcoholic who makes terrible choices while she's drinking - all of them involving men - and is prone to drinking so much that she blacks out.
So when she and a passenger, Alex, begin to flirt and carry that flirtation to dinner and lots of drinks when they land in Dubai, she ends up back in his hotel room. Waking up in the morning and anxious to get back to her hotel to get ready to meet her flight crew to head out, she realizes that Alex has been murdered and is lying dead in the bed next to her. She obviously blacked out and can only remember bits and pieces of the night before - an associate of Alex's, Miranda, stopping by with yet more drinks - and she panics. There's a broken liquor bottle on the floor and blood on her hands. Did she kill Alex in a blackout rage? She decides to quickly shower and leave the hotel, setting into motion a series of lies to her crewmates and later the FBI.
This is a great thriller, spanning different locations and leaving so many questions to be answered - you will race through this book to figure it all out! Highly recommended!
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