Character Analysis
(Avoiding Spoilers)
Living… with her husband, William, and son, Eli in New York. Eli is fifteen, and with William busy at work, Megan is beginning to understand the trials and tribulations of parenting a teenage boy.
Profession… flight attendant. Megan travels the world with Imperial Airlines. Whether it’s Rome, Paris, Bangkok, it’s just another day on the job. Her coworkers are charming in their unique ways, and she has formed a close relationship with Cassie Bowden over the years.
Interests… family, gossip, and keeping secrets. Megan is a loyal mother and wife, but life gets boring sometimes. She’s looking for anything to spice things up.
Challenge… deciding where her loyalties lie. Megan is slipping deeper and deeper into some new activities, but she doesn’t have the faintest clue as to how serious her situation is becoming. She was just craving some fun, but now she isn’t sure who to turn to—and she’s running out of time.
Relationship status… married. Megan and William are happily married, but their calm marriage has led Megan to make some risky decisions. She’s keeping secrets from William and is unaware that those lies are catching up to her.
Personality… eager to help, insecure, and a bit naïve. Megan is sweet, charming, and only a little overbearing to friends and family. She often feels left out or two steps behind everyone else, asking Cassie, “do you ever feel like nobody sees you?” So, when an opportunity to prove herself and catch some thrills comes a long, of course she takes it. Who wouldn’t?
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Flight attendant Cassandra Bowden wakes in her hotel room hungover from the night before in Dubai with a dead body lying next to her. Afraid to call the police, she continues her morning as if nothing happened. In New York, she is met by FBI agents who question her about her recent layover in Bangkok. Still unable to piece the night together, she begins to wonder if she could be the killer.
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A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man—and no idea what happened. Cassandra Bowden is no stranger to hungover mornings. She's a binge drinker, her job with the airline making it easy to find adventure, and the occasional blackouts seem to be inevitable. She lives with them, and the accompanying self-loathing. When she awakes in a Dubai hotel room, she tries to piece the previous night back together, counting the minutes until she has to catch her crew shuttle to the airport. She quietly slides out of bed, careful not to aggravate her already pounding head, and looks at the man she spent the night with. She sees his dark hair. His utter stillness. And blood, a slick, still wet pool on the crisp white sheets. Afraid to call the police—she's a single woman alone in a hotel room far from home—Cassie begins to lie. She lies as she joins the other flight attendants and pilots in the van. She lies on the way to Paris as she works the first class cabin. She lies to the FBI agents in New York who meet her at the gate. Soon it's too late to come clean-or face the truth about what really happened back in Dubai. Could she have killed him? If not, who did? Set amid the captivating world of those whose lives unfold at forty thousand feet, The Flight Attendant unveils a spellbinding story of memory, of the giddy pleasures of alcohol and the devastating consequences of addiction, and of murder far from home.
