The Passage by Justin Cronin
Fiction

Things aren’t going so well for humanity at the beginning of this book. Swaths of land have become uninhabitable, the war against terror is a losing battle, and attempts to create a super-soldier by using a virus found in the jungle have gone awry. The twelve virus-infected human guinea pigs have escaped, killing everyone in their path and creating a horde of “virals.” Only one six-year old girl, who was infected to see if her age made a difference, has some characteristics of a “viral” but has retained her basic humanity. Fast forward almost 100 years, and a small band of the descendents of the original uninfected human survivors are looking for a way to keep the few remaining uninfected humans safe. This first in the trilogy is followed by The Twelve and the final The City of Mirrors.

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