The US army decides it'd be an excellent idea to use them as weapons, experimenting on death row prisoners with the vampire virus. I haven't been so buried in a book for ages.Ĭronin's vampires are found in the jungles of Bolivia. And, after reading solidly for about three days on holiday last month, I can report that The Passage fits the bill perfectly. Stop reading now if your summer holiday book lineup consists of literary prize winners and proper biographies, steering clear of the blockbuster end of the market, but for me there's nothing better than a whopping great brick of post-apocalyptic fiction. "It's got everything in it, wonderful characters, and it's just a terrific read from beginning to end - I can't think of a better book in the summertime."
It's terrific and I hope it sells a million copies," said King, as Cronin's eyes got wider and wider. Possibly most helpful of all, though: as Cronin was being interviewed on Good Morning America earlier this week, the show received a call from Stephen King, who told the surprised literary novelist (whose first two books have sold around 74,000 copies, according to the NYT) that he'd successfully "put the scare back into vampires". Not least a a New York Times interview for Cronin, a glowing review in Time ("The Passage can stand proudly next to Stephen King's apocalyptic masterpiece The Stand, but a closer match would be Cormac McCarthy's The Road"), and a prediction from the Huffington Post that the Passage "may be the book of the summer". Film rights were bought by Ridley Scott, and in the US, where it was published on Tuesday, there's been shed loads of press.
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