The Passage
by:
Justin Cronin (author)
The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control.At an army...
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The Andromeda Strain meets The Stand in this startling and stunning thriller that brings to life a unique vision of the apocalypse and plays brilliantly with vampire mythology, revealing what becomes of human society when a top-secret government experiment spins wildly out of control.At an army research station in Colorado, an experiment is being conducted by the U.S. Government: twelve men are exposed to a virus meant to weaponize the human form by super-charging the immune system. But when the experiment goes terribly wrong, terror is unleashed. Amy, a young girl abandoned by her mother and set to be the thirteenth test subject, is rescued by Brad Wolgast, the FBI agent who has been tasked with handing her over, and together they escape to the mountains of Oregon. As civilization crumbles around them, Brad and Amy struggle to keep each other alive, clinging to hope and unable to comprehend the nightmare that approaches with great speed and no mercy. . .
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385669511 (0385669518)
Publish date: June 8th 2010
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Pages no: 784
Edition language: English
Series: The Passage (#1)
Audience: Adult Format: eBook/Library Copy Before she became the Girl from Nowhere -- the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years -- she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. - opening sentence This book is amazing. I bought it several years ago for so...
„The Passage“ von Justin Cronin ist ein Reread. Ich habe den Auftakt der gleichnamigen Trilogie 2011 schon einmal als „Der Übergang“ gelesen. Für mich stand nie Frage, dass ich „The Passage“ weiterverfolgen würde, aber die langwierige Veröffentlichungsgeschichte der deutschen Folgebände verzögerte d...
It's twenty minutes into the future, and an aggrieved FBI agent is rounding up subjects that no one will miss. Twelve of them are death row inmates: the thirteenth is an abandoned six-year-old, Amy Bellafonte. They are to be injected with a serum from a Bolivian bat virus to create (all together now...
This was my third time reading 'The Passage' and I still enjoyed it as much as the first time. I'm not quite sure why that is.I'm a sucker for survival stories, anyway (if you'll excuse the pun), so that is already a huge plus. Blood-sucking vampire super-soldiers - virals - created by man, have m...
Justin Cronin's The Passage is an epic tale of monsters; government monsters and the ones they have created. This is a lengthy read and it covers a full century, shifting seamlessly from one time period to another. Yes, it has and will be compared to many other books out there but it definitely ha...