Title:
The Strain
Author:
Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan
Publisher:
Harper Collins
Price:
Rs 250
A plane lands at the JFK airpot and dies. No crash, no technical error and no terror. It just dies, exactly like all its passengers — without any cause. When you read the name Guillermo del Toro (director of
Pan’s Labyrinth
and
Hellboy
) on the cover of a book, you’re hooked already. Co-written with Chuck Hogan, the story starts in World War struck Germany as Abraham Setrakian’s grandmother narrates the story of the monster Jusef Sardu… Cut to present day, post 9/11 New York as Dr Ephrain Goodwether is caught looking for a virus strain that defies everything he knows.
The first 80-odd pages of the book are bone chilling. Until you start piecing together what the “evil” is. Eventually the plot becomes a series of cliffhangers, more suited for Hollywood. Hogan and del Toro manage to make an impressionable foray into the world of vampires. It’s the start of a trilogy that will surely keep you hooked.