num_pages: 784
description: IT HAPPENED FAST.THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE ANOTHER TO BE BORN.First the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation and ultimately a world forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fearof darkness of death of a fate far worse.As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors but for Amy escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odysseyspanning miles and decadestoward the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.With The Passage award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling masterly prose and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.
language: English
title: The Passage
publisher: Ballantine Books