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The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohajalian
Review by Priscilla Comen
The Flight Attendant
Chris Bohajalian
Review by Priscilla Comen
The Flight Attendant, by Chris Bohjalian, is the story of Cassie, a flight attendant who gets blotto drunk and sleeps with every man she meets on lay-overs from her airline trips. She wakes up in Dubai with a dreadful hangover and sees the man in bed with her has had his throat slashed. Thus begins the rest of her life.
Cassie can’t remember if she killed her bed partner or if a woman named Miranda, who had come to their hotel suite, had perhaps done the deed. If so, why did Miranda leave Cassie alive? Author Bohjalian weaves the job of flight attendant into this “who done it." Coach, first and business class are described so we recall what it’s like to fly. Cassie hires a lawyer, Ani, pro bono, who will keep her safe, she hopes. Her next flight is to Rome.
Enter Elena and Viktor, Russian spies. Elena is the one who murdered Alex and spared Cassie. She’s in big trouble. Viktor berates her for her error of leaving a possible witness. He tells her the witness has to die, or Elena will be punished. Cassie is questioned by the FBI. Her lawyer goes with her and advises Cassie to take the fifth. Cassie does, but this causes more suspicion to focus on her. Why doesn’t she just tell the truth? Will the true story come out eventually? As the story continues, Cassie’s brother in law is involved. He works for the government destroying chemicals. Did he pass on any information to Cassie that she may have told the man in bed with her? Was that man a spy also?
How will Cassie’s life change? Will she always be a drunk? Find this on the new mystery shelf of your Mendocino Community Library.
Cassie can’t remember if she killed her bed partner or if a woman named Miranda, who had come to their hotel suite, had perhaps done the deed. If so, why did Miranda leave Cassie alive? Author Bohjalian weaves the job of flight attendant into this “who done it." Coach, first and business class are described so we recall what it’s like to fly. Cassie hires a lawyer, Ani, pro bono, who will keep her safe, she hopes. Her next flight is to Rome.
Enter Elena and Viktor, Russian spies. Elena is the one who murdered Alex and spared Cassie. She’s in big trouble. Viktor berates her for her error of leaving a possible witness. He tells her the witness has to die, or Elena will be punished. Cassie is questioned by the FBI. Her lawyer goes with her and advises Cassie to take the fifth. Cassie does, but this causes more suspicion to focus on her. Why doesn’t she just tell the truth? Will the true story come out eventually? As the story continues, Cassie’s brother in law is involved. He works for the government destroying chemicals. Did he pass on any information to Cassie that she may have told the man in bed with her? Was that man a spy also?
How will Cassie’s life change? Will she always be a drunk? Find this on the new mystery shelf of your Mendocino Community Library.