The Passengers by John Marrs Started: 20th December 2018 Finished: 22nd December 2018 Published: 1st April 2019 Well Mr Marrs, you have made me late several times, and I have spent the whole afternoon reading as you have made this book impossible to put down! I have loved all your books, and this is up there with the best of them. So this is set in the future, when most cars are driver-less- not just with some driver-less capability, but no steering wheel, no breaks, nothing. Who hasn’t wondered what would happen in this scenario if things went wrong? A jury of people have been set up to rule over car crashes that happen with these driver-less cars. Whilst they are inherently more safe than manual cars, on rare occasions things happen that prevent everyone in the crash coming out unscathed. A panel is set up regularly to oversee these incidents, and a member of the public is co-opted to the panel, which is how Libby finds herself in a room of people who are obviously not ...
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