The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian Book ReviewĬassandra is a binge-drinking, fly by the seat of her pants international flight attendant. Could she have killed him? If not, who did?

Soon it’s too late to come clean-or face the truth about what really happened back in Dubai. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the gate. She lies on the way to Paris as she works the first class cabin.

She lies as she joins the other flight attendants and pilots in the van.

And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets.Īfraid to call the police–she’s a single woman alone in a hotel room far from home–Cassie begins to lie. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, already counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. She’s a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. Binge-drinking flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes up with another bad hangover in a Dubai hotel room and finds the man she spent the night with lying dead beside her… What really happened? And what are the consequences of addiction, deception, and denial? Fans are lining up.Goodreads The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian Book ReviewĬassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. “ 20th novel…combines popular tropes with a serious examination of social issues.

“Bohjalian is an unfaltering storyteller who crosses genres with fluidity, from historical fiction to literary thrillers…a read-in-one-sitting escapade that is as intellectually satisfying as it is emotionally entertaining.”-Booklist (Starred Review) But she’s also someone we can relate to: a soul damaged during childhood, terribly alone, and desperate for love… 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) “Flight attendant Cassie Bowden: a self-destructive alcoholic who favors one-night stands, a gifted liar, a petty thief. “A turbulent behind-the-scenes look at the lives of cabin crew members and a pitiless profile of a woman destined for a psychological crash landing… Cassie is a hot, frighteningly believable mess, as endangered by alcoholism as by espionage.” -Passport Magazine

The flight attendant by chris bohjalian