A salvage diver in 1980s New Orleans investigates a sunken jet with a passenger missing from the wreckage while his memory of his dead sister, a mathematician who took her own life, keeps intruding as long dialogues with a flippered hallucination called the Thalidomide Kid.
Books mentioned in The Passenger (3)
Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes: “He went back to his bunk and got out a paperback copy of Hobbes's Leviathan.”
The Principles of Quantum Mechanics by P. A. M. Dirac: “He stood up and reached down Dirac's Principles of Quantum Mechanics, fourth edition.”
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce: “In the end Murray called the particles quarks—after a line in Joyce's Finnegans Wake, referring to cottage cheese.”