The Last PassengerA luxury cruise liner, abandoned with no crew, steaming into the mid Atlantic. And you are the only passenger left on board. 'Astonishing' IAN RANKIN 'Expect not just the unexpected but strokes of genius' IMRAN MAHMOOD 'Thrilling and terrifying in equal measure with a brilliantly heart stopping ending. So good!' B. A. PARIS Caz Ripley, a cafe owner from a small, ordinary town, boards the RMS Atlantica with her boyfriend Pete and a thousand fellow

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they discover a terrible secret

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Could their separate inquiries in fact be linked

It began with a phone call from an anxious mother one Dublin evening

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It is a journey of ever-shifting alliances and betrayals that will lead him across a war-torn world