The Twelve

Excellent continuation of the epic saga that began with the original The Passage. As in the original book the story transitions between the original vampiric apocalypse to about one hundred years later. The Twelve refers to the original subjects (death row inmates) of a viral experiment by the military. These “immortal” vampiric mutants, like queen bees, control hordes of those they have turned. And then there is the mysterious long-lived girl Amy, who received a version of the experimental virus but did not turn into a monster. With her help characters readers were introduced to in the first book will attempt to hunt down the mutant leaders in order to destroy them and hopefully end the vampiric plague that has stripped the land of every warm-blooded living thing. But perhaps just as dangerous are the human monsters that stand in the way of humanity's survival and recovery.