Justin Cronin

In an America drastically altered by a government experiment gone horribly wrong, a band of survivors encounter a six-year-old orphan who may provide the antidote for calamity.
With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterful prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.