The Strain
Book one of del Toro and Hogan's trilogy: a plane lands dead at JFK and a CDC doctor uncovers not a virus but an ancient vampiric plague poised to consume New York.
Del Toro teamed with novelist Chuck Hogan to reinvent the vampire as biological plague rather than romantic figure. A Boeing 777 lands at JFK gone dark and silent, every passenger seemingly dead, and CDC investigator Ephraim Goodweather is called in. What he finds is not a virus but the arrival of an ancient predator and a parasitic strain that turns the infected into monsters. Fast, gruesome, and cinematic, it reads like one of del Toro’s films on the page, and launched a trilogy and a television series.
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