The Last Passenger cover art

The Last Passenger

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for £0.00
£8.99/mo thereafter. Renews automatically. Terms apply. Offer ends 31 July 2025 at 23:59 GMT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for £8.99/mo after 3 months. Cancel monthly.

The Last Passenger

By: Will Dean
Narrated by: Jenny Funnell
Try for £0.00

£8.99/mo after 3 months. Offer ends 31 July 2025 23:59 GMT. Cancel monthly.

Buy Now for £12.99

Buy Now for £12.99

Confirm Purchase
Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.
Cancel

About this listen

The electrifying stand-alone thriller from the author of The Last Thing to Burn and First Born.

My phone has no reception, something we've been told to expect from time to time out here, and my stomach feels uneasy. Maybe it's the motion of the waves or maybe it's the fact that Pete didn't leave a note or a text. He usually leaves a note with a heart.

I pull on jeans and a jumper and scrunch my hair on top of my head and take my key card and step out into the corridor.

Thirty seconds later it hits me.

All the other cabin doors are wedged open.

Every single one is unoccupied and unlocked.

My heart starts beating harder. I break out into a run. At the end of the long corridor I take a lift down to the Ocean Lobby.

There's nobody here.

My mouth is dry.

It's like I'm trapped on a runaway train.

No, this is worse.

The RMS Atlantica is steaming out into the ocean and I am the only person on board.

This was supposed to be the holiday of a lifetime for Cas. Now she just needs to survive.

With the drama of The Woman in Cabin 10 and the tension of And Then There Were None, The Last Passenger is a psychological thriller set aboard a cruise ship about a woman whose seemingly ordinary life is suddenly thrown dramatically off course. Will Dean is the master of intense suspense and this novel is full of his trademark twists and turns.

©2023 Will Dean (P)2023 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Crime Thrillers International Mystery & Crime Mystery Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime Exciting Heartfelt Scary

Listeners also enjoyed...

Breakneck Point cover art
Voice of Reason cover art
Before She Knew Him cover art
The Passenger cover art
Improbably Yours cover art
Every Vow You Break cover art
A Summer on the Riviera cover art
Sea of Bones cover art
The Great Transition cover art
Corin Hayes: Omnibus, Books 1 to 3 cover art
All at Sea cover art
The Getaway cover art
Survive cover art
Beneath the Water cover art
A Stranger on Board cover art
All stars
Most relevant  
I really recommend this one. Keeps you hooked from the first page. Kept me up the whole night!

Excellent Book!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I hated the first 3 chapters. The inner thoughts of the protagonist I thought were dreadful- that is, not what anyone would think in those circumstances. I decided if it carried on the same I’d abandon it. But something made me carry on. The characters themselves were odd, in that I couldn’t believe in them but then again I did! It’s left me full of contradictory feelings! The rather strange narration which some reviewers have criticised, I came to think was very good. Of course the story is far fetched but if we go back 15 years who would have believed that some of the reality shows that are on now would ever be screened? I honestly didn’t know how it would end. Such a simple explanation really but I was so caught up in the characters’ emotions that I didn’t imagine it would be that straightforward. (I have ignored the very end on the plane because that was just crazy!). For some reason all the way through I was wondering why I was liking this book but I did, it was totally gripping the further in I got. It’s a book you need to give a go and you may not like it but you may find you cannot stop listening!

What an amazing book- give it a go!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

The narrator was simply superb for this story and really brought it to life.

Hard to talk about this story without spoilers. My only negative feedback is I preferred it to be darker at the end. Felt the ending was too rushed and too obvious.

I really didn’t mind that the story was far fetched as it’s great if authors push boundaries and the art of the possible to create new and innovative stories.

I definitely recommend as its unique story and great fun.

Great concept and entertaining

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Absolutely loved listening to this book, great story, lots or twists and shocks and enjoyed listening to the author. Well worth a listen. Might have to try one of Will’s other books.

Couldn’t stop listening

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Part mature gripping thriller and part silly teen horror.
The protagonist was difficult to relate to, especially at the beginning where she appears very timid and dull. The book explored her past and the reasons for her mental durability but there was no explanation for her physical capability.
I enjoyed the suspense of the early part of the book, however I found the main plot reveal to be predictably irritating. It grew on me as an idea as it became increasingly sinister but the end ruined it for me. It was so obvious that I spent the final few chapters hoping that the author wouldn’t go there and then he did, which was disappointing.
I’m trying not to give too much away but below might be a POTENTIAL SPOILER ALERT!
Ultimately there is little here that hasn’t been seen before. Reminiscent of the film ‘The Game’ with Michael Douglas, the gleeful anguish and disturbing horror of Squid Game plus the cheap shocks and gore of the ‘Final Destination’ series, with a bit of 1984 paranoia thrown in. If you like a simple thriller and find a bit of mild horror fun then you will enjoy this book, but if you’re an avid reader or film-buff of the relevant genres then you will already know this story.

Plain sailing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Wow this was a fantastic surprise. Downloaded on a whim & didn’t expect such brilliant storytelling - I couldn’t tell where the plot was going right to the end & at a few plot points I actually gasped out loud! There were some brilliant uncanny moments, one involved a mirror that made my skin crawl, and another involving cruisers’ worst nightmare…both so well told. There was also some really poignant moments, the author knows how to write about addiction and grief. And as others reviewers have alluded to, the main theme of this novel is sad because it’s doesn’t feel that far-fetched in 2024.

Fantastic storytelling!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Slightly far fetched but brought into the plot not too far in. End totally ruined it for me though.

Narration

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

Enjoyed this novel so much - did not want it to end and the narrator is excellent

Brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

This audio was so good, I bought it in paperback for a friend/colleague to read. she read it in 2 days and it then went round the office. brilliant book.

Bloody Brilliant!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

don't think I have ever been so captivated by a book. shocking, heartbreaking, exciting, desperate. already recommended to everyone i know!

absolutely brilliant

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

See more reviews