#BlogTour-‘Passengers’ by John Marrs

‘The One’ by John Marrs was one of last year’s bookish highlights so I am incredibly thrilled to be able to bring you my turn on the Compulsive Readers blogtour for ‘The Passengers’

Available NOW in ebook and on May 5th in paperback, this is, in my humble opinion, a must read!

About the book….

Eight self-drive cars set on a collision course. Who lives, who dies? You decide.

‘Provocative, terrifying and compulsive. Another savagely clever near future thriller’ Cara Hunter, bestselling author of ‘‘Close To Home’

The new gripping page-turning thriller for fans of Black Mirror from the bestselling author of ‘Her Last Move’ and ‘The One’ – soon to be a major Netflix series.

When someone hacks into the systems of eight self-drive cars, their passengers are set on a fatal collision course. 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?

This is one high octane, tank fuelled with adrenaline thrill ride of a book which can be enjoyed on many levels.

It’s a thriller, a whodunnit, an examination of the role that A.I is taking in modern life, where it is going to go and the inevitable consequences.

The politics of autonomous ,driverless cars which are apparently ‘unhackable’ is not far fetched at all and when this is combined with the concept of choosing who is worthy to live or die-literally trial in the public eye-by an annonymous person known as The Hacker.

Who he is and what his motivations are are unclear, however, what is significant is the way in which the trapped people, on a collision course with each other unless the public vote them to die first, is startlingly original and prescient.

The 8 victims are all deemed unloveable/up for voting via social media platforms via a jury who are also trapped and forced to vote/ask questions of each Passenger in turn . The results of those questions are determinging the popularity-or not-of each of the characters.

It’s a seering indictment of modern society where we are judged on appearance, systematically stripped down by dubious moral standards and societal ‘norms’. Without giving away any deaths, or spoilers, the manner in which there are some dispatches, shall we say, holds a mirror up to the sad state of affiars which is modern day Britain.

I cannot wax lyrical enough about the sheer mastery of John Marrs to paradoxially want you to keep the pages turning, whilst simultaneously needing to take breaks from his slam dunk cliffhangers, which had me going ‘HOLY SHIT! WHAT THE ACTUAL??!!!’ at nearly each chapter’s conclusion.

This is going to be a MASSIVE besteseller and it is totally perfect for tv: it’s visual, resonant and just a flat out joy to read!

About the author…

John Marrs is the author of ‘The One’ which is being made into a 10 part Netflix series, ‘The Good Samaritan’, ‘Her Last Move’, ‘When You Disappeared’, and ‘Welcome to Wherever You Are’. Until recently, he worked for twenty-five years as a freelance journalist based in London, England, where he interviewed celebrities from the world of television, film, and music for national newspapers and magazines. He has written for publications including the Guardian’s Guide and Guardian Online, Total Film, the Huffington Post, Empire, Q, GT, the Independent, S Magazine, and Company. He is now a full-time author.

Links-https://www.johnmarrsauthor.co.uk/

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