The Passage
Hardcover: 766 pages
ISBN: 9780345504968
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Date: 2010
Starred review – Publisher’s Weekly
Starred review – Library Journal
Named on of Time Magazine’s 10 Best Novels of the Year
Named one of the 10 Best Books of the Year by
The Washington Post, Esquire, U.S. News & World Report, NPR/On Point,
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, BookPage
SYNOPSIS:
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.
SUBJECTS:
Post-apocalyptic society, Plagues, Viruses, Survival, FBI agents, Vampires, Military experiments, Orphans
REVIEWS:
“Magnificently unnerving . . . A The Stand-meets-The Road journey.” –Entertainment Weekly
“Great entertainment . . . [a] big, engrossing read.” –The Dallas Morning News
“Mythic storytelling.” –San Francisco Chronicle
“A mesmerizing experience.” –Salon
“Cronin gets everything right.” –The Denver Post
“Cronin’s unguessable plot and appealing characters will seize your heart and mind.” –Parade
“Magnificent.” –Time
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