![]() ![]() Cassie has been oblivious not just to the harm she’s been doing to herself with alcohol, but to a complex network involving American spies, Russian oligarchs, chemical weapons and Cassie’s family and co-workers. Was the murderer the mysterious woman she blurrily remembers visiting the suite? Has Cassie been set up for the crime? Might she be so out of control that she committed the murder herself?īohjalian lets Cassie torment herself for a time, but it’s soon clear the killer was a Russian assassin hired by one of the fund’s wronged investors. And then worse: She notices her hookup has had his throat slashed in bed. In the expertly turned thriller The Flight Attendant, the woman is Cassie, a flight attendant whose hard-partying ways are degenerating into alcoholism as she exits her 30s.ĭuring a layover in Dubai, a blackout-drunk liaison with a hedge-fund manager she met in first class leads to some familiar morning-after regrets. It was only a matter of time before somebody gave it wings. ![]() Ruth Ware took it out to sea in The Woman in Cabin 10. ![]() Paula Hawkins put the formula on rails in The Girl on the Train. The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian Doubleday, 354 pp. ![]() What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY’s picks for book lovers include Chris Bohjalian's high-flying thriller The Flight Attendant and Anna Quindlen's new novel, Alternate Side. ![]()
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