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  • Published: 22 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9780525432685
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $32.99

The Flight Attendant

A Novel




From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Midwives and The Sleepwalker, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: a flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man--and no idea what happened.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful thriller about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened. • Don't miss the acclaimed HBO Max series!

Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His utter stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets.

Afraid to call the police—she's a single woman alone in a hotel room far from home—Cassie begins to lie. She lies as she joins the other flight attendants and pilots in the van. She lies on the way to Paris as she works the first class cabin. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the gate. Soon it's too late to come clean-or face the truth about what really happened back in Dubai. Could she have killed him? If not, who did?

Set amid the captivating world of those whose lives unfold at forty thousand feet, The Flight Attendant unveils a spellbinding story of memory, of the giddy pleasures of alcohol and the devastating consequences of addiction, and of murder far from home.

Look for Chris Bohjalian's new novel, The Lioness!

  • Published: 22 January 2019
  • ISBN: 9780525432685
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 368
  • RRP: $32.99

About the author

Chris Bohjalian

Chris Bohjalian has written four novels and reviews regularly for the New York Times Book Review and the Washington Post. He is married with children.

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Praise for The Flight Attendant

"Filled with turbulence and sudden plunges in altitude. . . . The very rare thriller whose penultimate chapter made me think to myself, 'I didn't see that coming.'" --Maureen Corrigan, The Washington Post

"An expertly turned thriller." --Mark Athitakis, USA Today

"Readers who enjoyed the imperfect heroine in Paula Hawkins's The Girl on the Train and the anxiety-ridden paranoia of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment will be hooked by this murder mystery." --Library Journal (starred review)

"The stakes couldn't be higher (literally)as Cassandra pieces together a mystery while working 40,000 feet above ground in Chris Bohjalian's gripping The Flight Attendant. Read it before Kaley Cuoco stars in the upcoming series!" --Cosmopolitan

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