![]() ![]() But their future is uncertain: the “virals” as the once convicts -now vampire-zombies – are now called, escape, break down the bunker, and go out into the world wreaking havoc. They are caught, of course, and returned to the top-secret Colorado bunker. The FBI agent sent to retrieve the thirteen subjects, Special Agent Brad Wolgast, balks at taking away a small child, and tries to escape with her. The choice for Subject Thirteen is Amy, a six-year-old girl who had been abandoned at a convent by a single mother. After the first twelve inmates have undergone rather bizarre transformations, the lead scientist wants to use a child for the next iteration. ![]() To test the formula, they experiment on death row prisoners. military develop an experimental drug therapy out of a rare virus believed to “weaponize” human beings. The book takes place some twenty years into the future. Cronin has managed to combine them, refashion the product to be suitable for young adult audiences (but sold in both YA and Adult markets), and spin it out to over 760 pages. ![]() Is it possible in any conceivable universe that Justin Cronin did not read Stephen King’s The Stand before he wrote this? Or see the movie series “28 Days Later” and “28 Weeks Later?” No, I doubt it’s possible even in an alternate universe. ![]()
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