‘The Flight Attendant’ Turns Pulpy Airport Novel Twists Into a Quickly Addictive TV Thriller – Concrete Playground

We’ve all heard the term ‘airport novel’, which refers to fast-paced, easy-to-devour fiction that’s perfect to read when you’re on a long flight and you’ve watched everything on the onboard entertainment system — or, to flick through while you’re waiting to hop on the plane. If you’re the kind of traveller who always starts your trip with a visit to the airport newsagency to pick up new reading material to help while away the hours, then you probably have a stash of paperbacks that fit the bill. And, because its name and premise are oh-so-perfect for the genre, you might even have The Flight Attendant on that pile.

Chris Bohjalian’s novel was first published in 2018. Two years later, at a time when we’d all…