Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction. With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy - abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey - spanning miles and decades - towards the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun. He is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors. JUSTIN CRONIN: All writing feels in some way the same, because your job. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. His mega-selling trilogy, The Passage, may be a mixture of vampire horror, apocalyptic science fiction, adventure novel. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear - of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.Īs civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment.

Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”įirst, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S.

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