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The Passage

‘Will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction’ Stephen King

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The Passage

By: Justin Cronin
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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 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.

(p) 2010 Penguin Random House LLC©2010 Justin Cronin Fantasy Horror Science Fiction Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Exciting

Critic Reviews

Enthralling ... Read 15 pages, and you will find yourself captivated; read 30 and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night. It had the vividness that only epic works of fantasy and imagination can achieve. What else can I say? This: read this book and the ordinary world disappears (Stephen King)
Cronin's massive novel transcends its clichés and delivers a feverishly readable post-apocalyptic-cum-vampire chiller. It's not 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 fact of a lost past and a horrifically uncertain future
Enthralling ... richly imagined. Above all, Amy is a superb creation, believably human yet beguilingly enigmatic
If 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
Epic, apocalyptic, heart-wrenching, catastrophic, mesmerisizing...
An exhilarating epic ... the breathtaking plot eventually circles back around, and the conclusion will leave you gasping. A modern classic in the making
Dense stuff with intriguing characters, Cronin's story of a supernatural government experiment that gets out of hand is surprisingly gripping. Full of plot twists, action and vampires. It's a dark epic that matches the best of Stephen King
An epic thriller, the story hinges around Amy, a six-year-old girl used as a test case by the government for a covert mission involving a deadly virus. And yes, she manages to escape... We loved it
Cronin is a skilled writer. Most of the characters are well drawn and he tackles the philosophical issue of gaining eternal life at the cost of your soul in between the throat-ripping battle scenes. I turned The Passage's pages feverishly to find out what happened next
A gripping story and a richly drawn cast. This is an epic that often bears comparison with Stephen King
Read 30 pages and you will find yourself taken prisoner and reading late into the night
Magnificent
Magnificently unnerving . . . The Stand meets The Road
Cronin has given us what could be the best book of the summer. Don't wait to dive into The Passage
Justin Cronin has written a wild, headlong, sweeping extravaganza of a novel. The Passage is the literary equivalent of a unicorn: a bona fide thriller that is sharply written, deeply humane, ablaze with big ideas, and absolutely impossible to put down (Jennifer Egan, author of A Visit from the Goon Squad)
Addictive, terrifying, and deeply satisfying. Not only is this one of the year's best thrillers; it's one of the best of the past decade-maybe one of the best ever
All stars
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Scott Brick is one of my favourite narrators and the story is classic epic tale.

Epic

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Loved this book and the other 2 in the series! Gripped me from start to finish.

Great series!

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Loved it. The narrators were great. Couldn't stop listening to it.Must tead again. 😀❤ ENJOYED.

Great!

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it was read exceptionally well. i loved it. it never occurred to me how much of the book i did not retain when i read it. but when its read to you, you seem to take more of the story in.

must read

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This story takes a while to wind up, but when it has finally finished the winding you are rewarded for enduring through with characters that have unique identities within a story that has loads of depth.
At first I was a bit disappointed and impatient with the wind up, but now I have finished this book I cannot see any other way to paint the picture required.
I loved the story and have purchased the next story.
This is a truly epic story, with a huge timeline, and I can't wait to see where it all ends up.

!! EPIC !!

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