Publisher Description

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES!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.

Notes

Paperback edition of the phenomenal apocalyptic vampire novel, which was a global bestseller in hardback, and received massive coverage. It went straight in at No.3 on The Sunday Times bestseller list, and movie rights were sold to Fox 2000 and Ridley Scott's Scott Free Productions. 'Read fifteen pages and you will find yourself captivated; read thirty and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night... read this book and the ordinary world disappears' Stephen King

Author Biography

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. His other honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers' Award. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Review

Epic, apocalyptic, heart-wrenching, catastrophic, mesmerising - DAILY MIRRORIf you only take one book away with you this summer, make it THE PASSAGE. It's an absorbing, nightmarish dream of a book, a terrifying apocalyptic thriller, populated by believable, sympathetic characters. Once you start reading it, you won't want it to end - THE TIMESRead 15 pages and you will find yourself captivated; read 30 and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night...read this book and the ordinary world disappears - Stephen KingNot only a brilliantly told story with thrilling plot twists and graphic action sequences, but a moving psychological portrait of survivors facing up to the poignant act of a lost past and a horrifically uncertain future - GUARDIANThis epic tale is truly exhilarating stuff - DAILY EXPRESS

Promotional

An epic, awe-inspiring novel of good and evil - the most talked about book of the year, and now a global bestseller.

Long Description

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES! 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.

Review Quote

This epic tale is truly exhilarating stuff but what makes THE PASSAGE work so well is not its massive canvas, but the concentration on its human characters, notably six-year-old redhead Amy Harper Bellafonte.

Promotional "Headline"

The first instalment of the bestselling The Passage Trilogy. Soon to be an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens and executive producer Ridley Scott.

Description for Sales People

THE PASSAGE went straight in at No.3 on the SUNDAY TIMES bestseller list.

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