Guillermo Del Toro: The Strain, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

Auf dem John-F.-Kennedy-Flughafen kommt eine gerade gelandete Maschine unvermittelt zum Stehen, der Pilot bricht den Funkverkehr ab, alle Lichter erlöschen. Als die herbeigeeilten Helfer das Flugzeug betreten bietet sich ihnen ein gespenstisches Bild: Die Passagiere sitzen aufrecht in ihren Sesseln, doch keiner rührt sich. Alle Passagiere haben einen kleinen Schnitt am Hals, sie leben- aber sie sind keine Menschen mehr ... In dieser Nacht beginnt der Kampf gegen das Böse, welches gekommen ist, um die ganze Welt zu erobern.

Beschreibung

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.

They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.
In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.
In two months - the world.
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.
In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing ...
So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city - a city that includes his wife and son - before it is too late.

Klappentext

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 . . .