{"product_id":"the-strain-paperback","title":"The Strain - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A high-tech vampire epic....Terrifying. San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Part The Andromeda Strain, part Night of the Living Dead. Salon.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Chuck Hogan is known for his taut thrillers, Guillermo del Toro for his surreal horror films The Strain brings out the best of each. Minneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn epic battle for survival begins between man and vampire in The Strain the first book in a heart-stopping trilogy from one of Hollywood s most inventive storytellers and a critically acclaimed thriller writer. Guillermo del Toro, the genius director of the Academy Award-winning Pan s Labyrinth and Hellboy, and Hammett Award-winning author Chuck Hogan have joined forces to boldly reinvent the vampire novel. Brilliant, blood-chilling, and unputdownable, The Strain is a nightmare of the first order.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt New York's JFK Airport, an arriving Boeing 777 taxiing along a runway suddenly stops dead. All the shades have been drawn, all communication channels have mysteriously gone quiet. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team investigating biological threats, boards the darkened plane---and what he finds makes his blood run cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city, an unstoppable plague that will spread like all-consuming wildfire---lethal, merciless, hungry . . . vampiric. And in a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, an aged Holocaust survivor knows that the war he has been dreading his entire life is finally here.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country. In two months . . . the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101540749535,"sku":"9780062068255","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/UWFTMHhBRlp3ZE5vdW5SeVNBMk9xQT09.webp?v=1781071686","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-strain-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}