The Strain (Media Tie-In) (Paperback) by Guillermo Del Toro

About the Book

Abraham Setrakian, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust, joins forces with CDC specialist Eph Goodweather to battle a vampiric virus that has infected New York in this first installment in a thrilling trilogy about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity.

Book Synopsis

An epic battle for survival begins between man and vampire in The Strain--the basis for the FX series and the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy from one of Hollywood's most inventive storytellers and a critically acclaimed thriller writer.

Guillermo del Toro, the genius director of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy, and Hammett Award-winning author Chuck Hogan have joined forces to boldly reinvent the vampire novel. Brilliant, blood-chilling, and unputdownable, The Strain is a nightmarish thriller of the first order.

From the Back Cover

In one week, Manhattan will be gone.
In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world.

At New York's JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane . . . and what he finds makes his blood run cold.

A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfire--lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric.

And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here . . .

Review Quotes

"[An] amazing writer and director. . . . Pan's Labyrinth places Mr. del Toro in the first rank of world filmmakers."--New York Times

"He elevated gothic horror to art. . . . Bilingual, bicultural, multigenre, he has a voice that feels both fresh and ancient."--Entertainment Weekly

"His distinctive creatures and otherwordly parables use the realms of fantasy to explore fundamental human issues such as love, alienation, weakness and, of course, fear... [He is] a master of monsters."--USA Today

"[One of] the most original and powerful filmmakers working today."--The Hollywood Reporter

"A cinematic magician who has never lost his childlike sense of wonder."--Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh in Associated Press