by Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
“When 753 from Berlin touches down in New York everything seems as usual until the plane goes dark on the runway, no lights, no communication - nothing. Attempts to enter the plane prove futile, all the blinds are down and no-one can raise anyone onboard. Not surprising really, because when Dr Eph Goodweather, of the New York CDC eventually gets on board they are all dead - well, all but four - and the rest look as if they simply fell asleep. But if they all look peaceful for the rest of New York it's the start of a nightmare beyond comprehension, especially when the dead bodies from the flight, not only disappear from the morgues they are stored in, but seem to be returning home. Of the four survivors three insist on leaving the hospital and returning home and tests on the fourth reveal his body is changing - but into what?
Along with his colleague Nora, Eph meets Abraham Setrakian, who as a young man was a survivor of a holocaust within The Holocaust, now an old man driven to fighting an ancient evil and the only one prepared in anyway to deal with the eternal darkness that threatens the very existence of mankind itself.
This is a creepy, atmospheric book, more haunting that blatantly horrific, that is written in an easy to read but gripping way that draws you into the nightmare world of vampires quite unlike anything Buffy had to deal with.
If you like a good read that will have you checking under the bed and behind the curtains before you turn out the light, this should certainly be on your list. Good 4/5”
Elaine W-W wrote this review Sunday, September 13 2009.
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