A Boeing 777 lands at JFK and then falls silent. The shades are drawn. The lights are out. No one answers.
Dr. Eph Goodweather of the CDC boards the plane, expecting a biological threat. What he finds is far worse—a contagion that should not exist. As panic spreads through New York, so does something far more insidious than disease.
In Spanish Harlem, Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian recognizes the signs. He knows this infection is ancient, ruthless, and hungry. What begins in one plane will soon consume the city.
The Strain is the first book in Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s terrifying trilogy, where science, myth, and horror collide. Humanity’s war with vampires has begun. Survival is no longer guaranteed.