This year's essential literary rediscovery ― Guardian

Remarkable... disabused, prophetic, and flawlessly penetrating -- André Aciman

A very welcome rediscovery -- James Owen ― The Times

A story that is part John Buchan, part Franz Kafka and wholly riveting. It is also uncannily prescient [...] a gripping novel that plunges the reader into the gloom of Nazi Germany as the darkness was descending. It deserved to be read when it was written. It certainly deserves to be read now -- Jonathan Freedland ― Guardian

There have been a number of great novels about the Second World War that have come to light again in recent times, most notably Suite Française and Alone in Berlin. I'm not sure that The Passenger might not be the greatest of them -- David Mills ― Sunday Times