The Passage by Justin Cronin

This very long book is one of the best reviewed of the summer. Described as a combination of Stephen King's The Stand and Cormac McCarthy's The Road it was a book I wanted to try. Like many of the best novels 15 pages in and you were hooked. The story was much like The Stand. End of the world stuff, army manufactures a biological weapon of sorts that goes haywire. The few survivors left have to deal with what is left and in The Passage the virals that are left behind.

A little campy is the assessment that many of the details of Dracula turn out to be true. Frustrating and a good thing as well is the information that this book does not come to an end and that at least two more books in the series will be published. I can see successful movies as well. Mr. Cronin has created something we will be living with for quite sometime.

A good book. A nice diversion. One I would tell a friend to read