![]() ![]() The initial test subjects, not including one survivor of a South American expedition bitten by vampire bats (the origin of the virus), are twelve death-row inmates who are injected with the virus and monitored in an underground facility in Colorado. The Passage is story about a set of military experiments gone awry – ones intended to make a stronger, more invulnerable soldier by infecting the soldiers with a “vampire” regenerative-type virus. There’s nothing original about vampirism caused from a vampire bat virus, and when you add in a heap of post-apocalyptic survival drama after the vampire apocalypse, strongly reminiscent of Resident Evil and I Am Legend, it’s not like you’ve got something fresh enough to be worth squillions of dollars. Sounds like overkill? A bit, especially when you consider that Mr. Cronin got from Ballantine Books for the rights to the trilogy – reportedly a whopping $3.75 million or thereabouts. Yep, you read that right, just under a couple million. The Passage by Justin Cronin got a lot of hype, most notably from the frenzy in 2007 between film studios caught in a bidding war for a half-unseen unfinished manuscript, which eventually sold for a staggering $1.75 million dollars. Books, Movies, scifi, Vampire TV Shows Book Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin ![]()
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