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The Passage
There's an incredible amount of hype about this book, and I have to agree it's pretty great. It's an adventure novel at heart, but a particularly well written one with great character development and much better prose than one usually finds in fantasy adventures.When a military experiment goes horribly wrong, men treated with a virus designed to make them super srong become bloodthirsty predators, spreading the virus quickly across the planet.Decades later, a small group of human survivors, who have been living in an isolated community, set out into the unknown to look for other survivors and to find the source of, and perhaps the cure for, the original virus. This is a book that is genuinely scary and exciting, but it still takes the time to develop characters and add nuance. I was especially impressed by Cronin's depiction of two FBI agents who could easily have been flattened in to a two dimensional "Men In Black" stereotype. Instead they were sympathetic and engaging. Cronin does this consistently with minor characters, and it is this kind of attention to detail that makes you care about the story all the way past page 700.
