The end of the world is swift and bloody. With super strength, great speed, a hard exoskeleton and rows of sharp teeth these insect-like killing machines soon destroy the entire population of America, infecting those that aren’t killed outright with the virus and creating 40 million ravenous monsters in the process. Escaped from a secret US army weapons programme the twelve test subjects infected with the “vampire” virus retain little trace of their humanity. Forget all your vampire expectations, when Cronin created his vampire populace he wasn’t thinking of Anne Rice’s sympathetic characters or Stephenie Meyer’s dreamy Edward Cullen, he had an altogether more scary vampiric vision in mind. The Passage is the first foray for literary author Justin Cronin into the world of vampire fiction. The Review and an Audience with Justin Cronin An epic journey that will take them through a world transformed by man's darkest dreams, to the very heart of what it means to be human. In a remote community in the California mountains, a young man called Peter waits for his beloved brother to return home - so he can kill him.īound together in ways they cannot comprehend, for each of them a door is about to open into a future they could not have imagined.
In a maximum security jail in Nevada, a convicted murderer called Giles Babcock has the same strange nightmare, over and over again, while he waits for a lethal injection.
In Memphis, Tennessee, a six-year-old girl called Amy is left at the convent of the Sisters of Mercy and wonders why her mother has abandoned her. Published 2010 766 pages Summary (from the book jacket)ĭeep in the jungles of eastern Colombia, Professor Jonas Lear has finally found what he's been searching for - and wishes to God he hadn't.
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