The enemy has evolved, and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than man’s extinction. One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind’s salvation.unaware that the rules have changed. These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned-and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. Kittridge, known to the world as “Last Stand in Denver,” has been forced to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child’s arrival even as society dissolves around her. In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with The Twelve.
(Oct.In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong.
Agent: Ellen Levine, Trident Media Group. A dramatis personae at the back listing more than 80 names is scarcely more helpful. A prologue surveys the events of The Passage in biblical prose (%E2%80%9CAnd a decree shall go forth from the highest offices that twelve criminals shall be chosen to share of the Zero%E2%80%99s blood, becoming%C2%A0demons also%E2%80%9D), but fails to bring readers adequately up to speed. The action shifts from the %E2%80%9Cpresent%E2%80%9D%E2%80%94five years after the First Colony, a refuge, has fallen to the virals%E2%80%94to Year Zero, when the virus that caused the catastrophe was unleashed, but the value added by the flashbacks isn%E2%80%99t obvious. The struggle for survival between humanity%E2%80%99s last hope, personified by Amy Harper Bellafonte, and vampire-like virals comes across as watered-down Stephen King, short on three-dimensional characters as well as genuine scares. Bestseller Cronin%E2%80%99s bloated apocalyptic thriller, like many a trilogy%E2%80%99s middle book, falls short of the high standard set by its predecessor, 2010%E2%80%99s The Passage.
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