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
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
ISBN: 9780752883335
Number of pages: 752
Weight: 514 g
Dimensions: 197 x 130 x 34 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
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
[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
[A] literary superthriller. - NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
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