The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This thrilling novel kicks off what Stephen King calls “a trilogy that will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”NOW A FOX TV SERIES!NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. News & World Report • NPR/On Point • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BookPage • Library Journal “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.” An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the story of Amy—abandoned by her mother at the age of six, pursued and then imprisoned by the shadowy figures behind a government experiment of apocalyptic proportions. But Special Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman sent to track her down, is disarmed by the curiously quiet girl and risks everything to save her. As the experiment goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape—but he can’t stop society’s collapse. And as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, into a future dark with violence and despair, she is filled with the mysterious and terrifying knowledge that only she has the power to save the ruined world. Look for the entire Passage trilogy: THE PASSAGE | THE TWELVE | THE CITY OF MIRRORS Praise for The Passage “[A] blockbuster.”—The New York Times Book Review “Mythic storytelling.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Magnificent . . . Cronin has taken his literary gifts, and he has weaponized them. . . . The Passage can stand proudly next to Stephen King’s apocalyptic masterpiece The Stand, but a closer match would be Cormac McCarthy’s The Road: a story about human beings trying to generate new hope in a world from which all hope has long since been burnt.”—Time “The type of big, engrossing read that will have you leaving the lights on late into the night.”—The Dallas Morning News “Addictive.”—Men’s Journal “Cronin’s unguessable plot and appealing characters will seize your heart and mind.”—Parade

“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.

the Barnes & Noble Review

in Summer Reading, Size Matters. Especially During The Dog Days, You Want To Look At The Brick Of Pages In Your Right Hand And Know That You'll Be Happily Turning Them For A While, Out Of The Heat, In A Place That Holds More Appeal Than Vistas Of Baking Asphalt Or Scorched Lawns.

that Kind Of Book May Be Popular But It Isn't Common. So It Will Be No Surprise If Readers Feel They've Found One In Justin Cronin's the Passage. at 784 Pages, It's Fat. And As The First Part Of A Trilogy, It Holds The Promise Of Two More Long Reads To Come. Also, As A Story About A Band Of Human Pioneers Trying To Ride Out A Plague Of Vampires That Has Turned America Into A Virus-ridden Wasteland, It Arrives Without Any Promise Of Being Good For You.

The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. The Passage debuted at #3 on the New York Times hardcover fiction best seller list, and remained on the list for seven additional weeks. It is the first novel of a completed trilogy; the second book The Twelve was released in 2012, and the third book The City of Mirrors released in 2016.