

If the Twelve are to fall, one of those united to vanquish them will have to pay the ultimate price. Other honors for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Whiting Writers’ Award. The enemy has evolved, and a dark new order has arisen with a vision of the future infinitely more horrifying than man’s extinction. The Passage (Cronin novel) The Passage is a novel by Justin Cronin, published in 2010 by Ballantine Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. One hundred years in the future, Amy and the others fight on for humankind’s salvation.unaware that the rules have changed. These three will learn that they have not been fully abandoned-and that in connection lies hope, even on the darkest of nights. April is a teenager fighting to guide her little brother safely through a landscape of death and ruin. 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. Lila, a doctor and an expectant mother, is so shattered by the spread of violence and infection that she continues to plan for her child’s arrival even as society dissolves around her.


In the present day, as the man-made apocalypse unfolds, three strangers navigate the chaos. Now the scope widens and the intensity deepens as the epic story surges forward with The Twelve. In his internationally bestselling and critically acclaimed novel The Passage, Justin Cronin constructed an unforgettable world transformed by a government experiment gone horribly wrong.
