A heart-stopping thriller rendered with masterful literary skill, The Twelve is a grand and gripping tale of sacrifice and survival. If the Twelve are to fall, one of those united to vanquish them will have to pay the ultimate price. The enemy has evolved, and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than man’s extinction. One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind’s salvation.
These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned-and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. Kittridge, known to the world as “Last Stand in Denver,” has been forced to flee his stronghold and is now on the road, dodging the infected, armed but alone and well aware that a tank of gas will get him only so far. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child’s arrival even as society dissolves around her. In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward. In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. The end of the world was only the beginning.
Would they have to watch her die? Would they perish first, knowing what would become of her in their absence? Which was preferable? But the answer was neither. And when the end swept down upon them all, they would exit the world on a wave of suffering, their agonies magnified a million times over by the loss of her.
How heavy that burden must have felt in their arms. Guilder recalled the couple who lived across the street from his townhouse, trading off their sleeping daughter on the way to the car. Husbands and wives, parents and children, friends and companions: what they believed had given them strength in their lives had actually done the opposite.
What had truly imprisoned them was one another. Physical barricades were nothing compared to the wires of the mind. And not merely by the wires that surrounded them. “His gaze widened, then taking in the entirety of the camp.
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