The Twelve
'Will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction' Stephen King
Published on 25. April 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
752 pages
978-0-7528-8333-5 (ISBN)
Description
The eagerly anticipated sequel to the global bestseller The Passage, now an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens and executive producer Ridley Scott.
'A literary superthriller' NEW YORK TIMES
THE TWELVE
Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future.
THE TWELVE
Until they were selected for a secret experiment.
THE TWELVE
To create something more than human.
THE TWELVE
Now they are the future and humanity's worst nightmare has begun.
THE TWELVE
The epic sequel to
THE PASSAGE
'A literary superthriller' NEW YORK TIMES
THE TWELVE
Death-row prisoners with nightmare pasts and no future.
THE TWELVE
Until they were selected for a secret experiment.
THE TWELVE
To create something more than human.
THE TWELVE
Now they are the future and humanity's worst nightmare has begun.
THE TWELVE
The epic sequel to
THE PASSAGE
Reviews / Votes
As exhilarating as The Passage, with people variously trapped in hideous bleak labour camps, engaging in cage fights with virals (Cronin's name for vampires) or chained up for decades. * SUNDAY TIMES * For fans of apocalyptic thrillers who aren't afraid of the dark * GLAMOUR.COM * [The Passage was] smart, well-crafted and entertaining ...The Twelve delivers much of the same vitality and vision. Like it's predecessor, it is a strange new creature for the 21st century: The literary superthriller, driven at once by character and plot * INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE * The follow-up to the much-lauded The Passage deepens and darkens the apocalyptic events of the first book * BELFAST TELEGRAPH * [A] literary superthriller. * NEW YORK TIMES * A compulsive read. * SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE * ...as exhilarating as The Passage, with people variously trapped in hideous bleak labour camps, engaging in cage fights with virals (Cronin's name for vampires) or chained up for decades. * SUNDAY TIMES * For fans of apocalyptic thrillers who aren't afraid of the dark * GLAMOUR.COM * [The Passage was] smart, well-crafted and entertaining ...The Twelve delivers much of the same vitality and vision. Like it's predecessor, it is a strange new creature for the 21st century: The literary superthriller, driven at once by character and plot. * INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE * The follow-up to the much-lauded The Passage deepens and darkens the apocalyptic events of the first book * BELFAST TELEGRAPH * [A] literary superthriller. * NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * A compulsive read. * SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Product notice
Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 126 mm
Thickness: 38 mm
Weight
512 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-8333-5 (9780752883335)
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Justin Cronin
The Twelve
'Will stand as one of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction' Stephen King
E-Book
10/2012
1st Edition
Orion
€7.99
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Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O'Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. His other honors include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers' Award. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.