About the Book
“It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.”
First,
the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility
unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment.
Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to
sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. 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.
As
civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and
prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is
a good man haunted by what he’s done in the line of duty. Six-year-old
orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific
project that has triggered apocalypse. He is determined to protect her
from the horror set loose by her captors. 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.
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. Its inventive
storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a
crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.
