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The Strain Trilogy: Book 2

The Fall (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Chuck Hogan (Author), Guillermo del Toro (Author) (edit contributors)

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Humans have been displaced at the top of the food chain, and now understand -- to their outright horror -- what it is to be not the consumer, but the consumed.

Ephraim Goodweather, director of the New York office of the Centers for Disease control, is one of the few humans who... read more

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From the authors of the instant New York Times best seller The Strain comes the next volume in one of the most imaginative and frightening thriller series in many, many years.

Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus unleashed in The... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

From the authors of the instant New York Times best seller The Strain comes the next volume in one of the most imaginative and frightening thriller series in many, many years.

Last week they invaded Manhattan. This week they will destroy the world. The vampiric virus unleashed in The Strain has taken over New York City. It is spreading and soon will envelop the globe. Amid the chaos, Eph Goodweather - head of the Center for Disease Control's team - leads a band out to stop these bloodthirsty monsters. But it may be too late.

Ignited by the Master's horrific plan, a war erupts between Old and New World vampires, each vying for control. At the center of the conflict lies a book, an ancient text that contains the vampires' entire history... and their darkest secrets. Whoever finds the book can control the outcome of the war and, ultimately, the fate of us all. And it is between these warring forces that humans - powerless and vulnerable - find themselves no longer the consumers but the consumed.

Though Eph understands the vampiric plague better than anyone, even he cannot protect those he loves. His ex-wife, Kelly, has been transformed into a blood-crazed creature of the night, and now she stalks the city looking for her chance to reclaim her Dear One: Zack, Eph's young son.

With the future of humankind in the balance, Eph and his team, guided by the brilliant former professor and Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian and exterminator Vasiliy Fet, and joined by a crew of ragtag gangsters, must combat a terror whose ultimate plan is more terrible than anyone has imagined - a fate worse than annihilation.

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  • “"His face. Its deep lines like a fingerprint - the thumb of time stamped firmly onto his visage."”
  • “What is life, in the end, but a series of small victories and larger failurs? But what else was there to to? Give up?”
  • “...sometimes the most difficult decision is to not martyr yourself for someone, but instead to choose to live for them. Because of them.”
  • “This symbol, how it was once seen - is an archetype. Common to all mankind, East and West - but within it, a different permutation, see? Latent, but revealed in time, like any prophecy... Any legend, any creature, any symbol we ever stumble on, already exists in a vast cosmic reservoir where archetypes wait. Shapes looming outside our Platonic cave. We naturally believe ourselves clever and wise, so advanced, and those who came before us so naive and simple... when all we truly do is echo the order of the universe, as it guides us...”

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MIRRORS ARE THE BEARERS of bad news, thought Abraham Setrakian, standing under the greenish fluorescent wall lamp, staring into his bathroom mirror.

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Extract from the diary of Ephraim Goodweather
GRAY SKIES
Knickerbocker Loans and Curios, Eash 118th Street, Spanish Harlem
The Night Squad
The Master-Part I
Ground Zero
Fet's Blog
Fairfield County, Connecticut
Pearl Street
Nazareth, Pennsylvania
IRT South Ferry Inner Loop Station
The Coach
-Interlude I FALL 1944

COLD WIND BLOWING
Knickerbocker Loans and Curios, East 118th Street, Spanish Harlem
Brooklyn
The Flatlands
Fet's Blog
The Black Forest Solutions Facility
IRT South Ferry Inner Loop Station
Arlington Park, Jersey City
The Flatlands
Interlude II - OCCIDO LUMEN: The Story of the Book
The Master - Part II

FALLEN LEAVES
The Sewer
The Silver Angel
The Flatlands
The Black Forest Solutions Facility
International Space Station
Knickerbocker Loans and Curios, East 118th Street, Spanish Harlem
Pennsylvania Station
Sotheby's
Extract from the diary of Ephraim Goodweather
Office of Emergency Management, Brooklyn
The Black Forest Solutions Facility
Fet's Blog
Penn Station
The Flatlands
Interlude III - Setrakian's Heart
The Flatlands
Brooklyn-Queens FBI Resident Agency

RAINFALL
EPILOGUE
Extract from the diary of Ephraim Goodweather
North River Tunnel

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 3 in The Strain Trilogy. (standard series)

Preceded by The Strain, and followed by The Night Eternal.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Chuck Hogan (Author)
  2. Guillermo del Toro (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 2010
ISBN: 978-0-06-155822-1
Page Count: 308

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  • The Night Eternal
  • The Strain

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  • The Strain

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