The Strain, Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan (Vampires)

The Strain
Guillermo del Toro & Chuck Hogan

HarperCollins 2009. Hårs pärm 401 sidor. Mycket gott skick.
ISBN 9780061558238

A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an aleart goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes hos blood run cold.

In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that the was is brewing…

So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city – a city that includes his wife and son – before it is too late.

"The first in a trilogy that soars with spellbinding intrigue. Truly an unforgettable tale you can't put down once you read the first page. I can't wait until the next one." CLIVE CUSSLER

"Have your heart medicine close: The Strain may sneak up on you-and it's scary enough to kill. I loved it." -GREGORY MAGUIRE, bestselling author of A Lion Among Men and Wicked

"Del Toro and Hogan have crafted a deliciously creepy story that will literally make the hairs on your neck stand up. The Strain is Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton. It just doesn't get much better than this." NELSON DEMILLE

"Blood and apocalypse mix in a terrifying story that feels like it was ripped from today's headlines. Vividly wrought and relentlessly paced, The Strain haunts as much as it terrifies. I cannot wait to see where del Toro and Hogan take us next." JAMES ROLLINS, Bestselling author of The Doomsday Kay

"Every few decades the vampire genre grows a tad anemic, as it were, and the lore of the Undead threatens to die on us. But then along comes a Richard Matheson or Stephen King and... license renewed. This time around the reanimators are Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan with their terrifying new novel, The Strain, an unholy spawn of I Am Legend out of Salem's Lot."
-DAN SIMMONs, bestselling author of Drood and The Terror