NEW YORK Moments BESTSELLER • This fascinating novel kicks off what Stephen Ruler calls “a trilogy that will stand among the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”

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NAMED AMONG PASTE’S Top HORROR BOOKS OF THE 10 years • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND ONE OF THE BETTER BOOKS OF THE ENTIRE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Esquire • U.S. Information & World Survey • NPR/On Point • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • BookPage • Library about The Passing: A Book (Book One of The Passing Trilogy) Journal

“It happened fast. Thirty-two moments for one globe to expire, another to become born.”

An epic and gripping tale of catastrophe and survival, The Passage is the tale of Amy-abandoned by her mom at age six, pursued and imprisoned by the shadowy numbers behind a federal government test of apocalyptic proportions. But Unique Agent Brad Wolgast, the lawman delivered to track her down, is definitely disarmed from the curiously silent girl and risks everything to save her. As the test goes nightmarishly wrong, Wolgast secures her escape-but he can’t stop society’s collapse. So that as Amy walks alone, across miles and decades, right into a upcoming dark with assault and despair, she is filled with the incomprehensible and terrifying understanding that only she has the ability to save the ruined world.

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Praise for The Passage

“[A] blockbuster.”-The NY Times Book Review

“Mythic storytelling.”-San Francisco Chronicle

“Wonderful . Cronin has taken his literary gifts, and he offers weaponized them. . . . The Passing can stand proudly next to Stephen King’s apocalyptic masterpiece The Stand, but a nearer match will be Cormac McCarthy’s THE STREET: a story about human beings trying to generate new hope in a global that all hope provides long since been burnt.”-Period

“The sort of big, engrossing read that will have you leaving the lighting on late in to the evening.”-The Dallas Morning News

“Addictive.”-Men’s Journal

“Cronin’s unguessable story and appealing individuals will seize your heart and mind.”-Parade|THE TWELVE