num_pages: 592
description: In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with The Twelve. In the present day as the man-made apocalypse unfolds three strangers navigate the chaos. Lila a doctor and an expectant mother is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her childs arrival even as society dissolves around her. 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. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. These three will learn that they have not been fully abandonedand that in connection lies hope even on the darkest of nights. One hundred years in the future Amy and the others fight on for humankinds salvation...unaware that the rules have changed. The enemy has evolved and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than mans extinction. If the Twelve are to fall one of those united to vanquish them will have to pay the ultimate price.
language: English
title: The Twelve
publisher: The Random House Publishing Group