The Passage Trilogy by Justin Cronin is a post-apocalyptic horror series that takes place in a world overrun by vampire-like creatures known as Virals. The series is comprised of three books: The Passage, The Twelve, and The City of Mirrors.
Titles in This Set:
- The Passage
- The Twelve
- The City of Mirrors
The first book in the series, The Passage, begins in the near future when a top-secret government experiment goes horribly wrong and unleashes a virus that turns people into Virals. The story follows a group of survivors, including a young girl named Amy, as they struggle to survive in a world overrun by these creatures.
The second book, The Twelve, delves deeper into the origins of the virus and the twelve original test subjects who were turned into Virals. The story jumps back and forth between the past and the present, as the survivors from the first book try to find a way to defeat the Virals once and for all.
The third and final book in the series, The City of Mirrors, brings the story to its epic conclusion as the survivors prepare for one final showdown with their vampire-like enemies. The book also delves deeper into the backstory of Amy, the young girl who plays a central role in the series.
The Passage Trilogy is a gripping and intense series that is sure to keep readers on the edge of their seats. Cronin does an excellent job of world-building and creating complex, three-dimensional characters that readers will root for until the very end. If you're a fan of post-apocalyptic horror, The Passage Trilogy is a must-read.
Description:
The Passage
An epic, awe-inspiring novel of good and evil - now a global bestseller. Amy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world. She is. Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than Death Row. He's wrong. FBI agent Brad Wolgast thinks something beyond imagination is coming. It is. The Passage. Soon to be an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens and executive producer Ridley Scott.
The Twelve
The eagerly anticipated sequel to the global bestseller The Passage, soon to be an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens and executive producer Ridley Scott. Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future. Until they were selected for a secret experiment. To create something more than human. Now they are the future and humanity's worst nightmare has begun. The epic sequel to The Passage.
The City of Mirrors
In life I was a scientist called Fanning. Then, in a jungle in Bolivia, I died. I died, and then I was brought back to life. Prompted by a voice that lives in her blood, the fearsome warrior known as Alicia of Blades is drawn towards to one of the great cities of The Time Before. The ruined city of New York. Ruined but not empty. For this is the final refuge of Zero, the first and last of The Twelve. The one who must be destroyed if mankind is to have a future. What she finds is not what she's expecting. A journey into the past. To find out how it all began. And an opponent at once deadlier and more human than she could ever have imagined.