The Twelve

Sequel to SUNDAY TIMES apocalypse bestseller THE PASSAGE: chosen by Time Magazine as one of the best books to read during self-isolation in the Coronavirus outbreak

As exhilarating as The Passage, with people variously trapped in hideous bleak labour camps, engaging in cage fights with virals (Cronin's name for vampires) or chained up for decades.

For fans of apocalyptic thrillers who aren't afraid of the dark

[The Passage was] smart, well-crafted and entertaining ...The Twelve delivers much of the same vitality and vision. Like it's predecessor, it is a strange new creature for the 21st century: The literary superthriller, driven at once by character and plot

The follow-up to the much-lauded The Passage deepens and darkens the apocalyptic events of the first book

[A] literary superthriller.

A compulsive read.

...as exhilarating as The Passage, with people variously trapped in hideous bleak labour camps, engaging in cage fights with virals (Cronin's name for vampires) or chained up for decades.

For fans of apocalyptic thrillers who aren't afraid of the dark

[The Passage was] smart, well-crafted and entertaining ...The Twelve delivers much of the same vitality and vision. Like it's predecessor, it is a strange new creature for the 21st century: The literary superthriller, driven at once by character and plot.

The follow-up to the much-lauded The Passage deepens and darkens the apocalyptic events of the first book

[A] literary superthriller.

A compulsive read.

Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O'Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. His other honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers' Award. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.