Airport/aeroplane reading but this was completely different.
A disparate group of characters are travelling Manchester to Euston in the same carriage on the same train. They interact sporadically and different bits of life history emerge; there is even a budding romance.
It gradually becomes clear that one of the characters is a muslim suicide bomber targeting Euston and one of the others grows suspicious, alerts the train guard (also a muslim) who tries to move the innocent into a different carriage. The bomber realises, panics and detonates his bomb. Most of them are killed but a few survive either with desperate injuries or loss of remaining family. The survivors try, with limited success, to set up a reunion group.
Totally different and in fact very interesting as a novelistic concept.
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