Passenger 23
Chapters (88)
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Prologue
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
- 10
- 11
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- 13
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- About this book and thanks
- Epilogue
- About the author
- About the translator
- An Invitation from the Publisher
Cover
PASSENGER
23
Title Page
SEBASTIAN
FITZEK
PASSENGER
23
translated from the German by
Jamie Bulloch
Copyright
First published in Germany as Passagier 23 in 2014 by Droemer Knaur
First published in the UK in 2021 by Head of Zeus Ltd
Passagier 23 copyright © 2014 Verlagsgruppe Droemer Knaur GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, Germany
Translation © 2021 Jamie Bulloch
The moral right of Sebastian Fitzek to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.
This is a work of fiction. All characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN (HB): 9781838935795
ISBN (XTPB): 9781838935801
ISBN (E): 9781838934521
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Dedication
In memory of my mother, Christa Fitzek
Coffee later!
Epigraph
Since 2000 at least 200 passengers and crew members have gone overboard on cruise ships and ferries worldwide.
‘Vanished without trace’,
Tagesspiegel, 25/8/2013
Cruise ships are like small cities. But […] no one falls off a city never to be heard of again.
US Senator Christopher Shays,
Guardian, 2007
Record passenger numbers: the cruise ship industry has broken the 20 million barrier. […] The sector is celebrating a growth of ten per cent and believes that much untapped potential still exists.
Spiegel Online, 11/9/2012
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
About this book and thanks
Epilogue
About the author
About the translator
An Invitation from the Publisher
Prologue
Human blood:
• 44 per cent haematocrit
• 55 per cent plasma
• And a one hundred per cent mess when it spurts uncontrollably around the room from a punctured artery.
The doctor, as he liked to call himself, even though he’d never completed a PhD, wiped his brow with the back of his hand. This only smeared the spatters of blood, which must have looked pretty revolting. But at least the stuff wasn’t dripping into his eye any more, like last year when for six weeks after treating the prostitute, he’d been terrified that he’d contracted HIV, hepatitis C or some other horrific disease.