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. But for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odysseyspanning miles and decadestowards 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. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what hes done in the line of duty. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fearof 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. Other honors for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Whiting Writers’ Award. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest.

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Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.įirst, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. Literary author Cronin ( Mary and O’Neil, 2001, etc.

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