Candace G. (Ogre) reviewed on 12/2/2015 + 1568 more book reviews

THE STRAIN is is an apocalyptic end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it tale, we aren't finished off by H-bombs, religious fanatics or strange scaled creatures from outer space. The author may push luck a bit more than plausible, but Nelson DeMille (below) describes it better than I can.

From back cover: In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months... the world.
At New York's JFK Airport and arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane... and what he finds makes his blood run cold.
A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, and unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire--lethal, merciless, hungry.. vampiric.
And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here...
"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

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