´A high-tech vampire epic ... Riveting action ... With echoes of Richard Matheson´s , l Am Legend and Stephen King´s ´Salem´s Lot.´ San Francisco Chronicle In one week, Manhattan will be gone.In one month, the country. In two months...the world.áAt New York´s JFK Airport an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. AII the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapidresponse team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane ... and what he finds makes his blood run cold.áA terrifying contagion has cometo the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like an all-consuming wildfirelethal, merciless, hungry... vampiric.áAnd in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here.á´A deliciously creepy story that will literally make the hairs on your neck stand up. The Strain is Bram Stoker meets Stephen King meets Michael Crichton. It just doesn´t get much better than this.´ Nelson DeMille