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The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event. The Strain They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come. In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months—the world. A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold. In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . . So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city—a city that includes his wife and son—before it is too late.
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3 primary booksThe Strain Trilogy is a 3-book series with 3 primary works first released in 2009 with contributions by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan.
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Je ne vais pas ressortir le cliché du “mythe du vampire revisité”, mais l'approche quasi-scientifique des vampires dans ce premier volume d'une trilogie m'a bien plu. Ca se lit bien, comme le scénario d'un film, et ce n'est pas étonnant quand on sait que c'est co-écrit par le réalisateur Guillermo Del Toro est que le roman a été adapté en série TV récemment.
Absolutely loved this book. I'm a big fan of Guillermo's movies and this book did not disappoint. It reads like a movie and I couldn't put it down. I am very excited for the sequel!
This one is a disappointment. There are some cool ideas in here, and a few scary passages, but mostly it's cliche and kinda boring. Wooden characters, heavy-handed plot development. I had been looking forward to this for a while, but I won't be reading the other two books of the trilogy.
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Finished it just to finish it. It reads like an unfinished movie script. Weak!