The Strain

Name: The Strain
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.06 (73 reviews)
Author: Guillermo del Toro
ISBN: 9780061902055

Author: Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan

Series: Strain Trilogy #1

Narrator: Ron Perlman

Unabridged: 13 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 06/02/2009

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Supernatural, Horror, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure

Synopsis

“A high-tech vampire epic....Terrifying.”
—San Francisco Chronicle“Part The Andromeda Strain, part Night of the Living Dead.”
—Salon.com“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 TribuneAn 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.

About Guillermo del Toro

Guillermo del Toro is an Academy Award®–winning film director as well as a screenwriter, producer, and New York Times bestselling novelist. He is best known for his foreign fantasy films, especially Pan’s Labyrinth, and American mainstream movies like The Shape of Water. Del Toro has published multiple bestselling adult novels with HarperCollins, including The Strain, which was adapted into a TV series by FX, and he is the creator of Trollhunters, Netflix’s most-watched children’s series.

About Chuck Hogan

Chuck Hogan is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Devils in Exile and Prince of Thieves, which won the 2005 Hammett Award , was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King, and was the basis of the motion picture The Town.Chuck Hogan es autor de varias aclamadas novelas, entre las cuales se encuentra Prince of Thieves que ganó el Hammett Award 2005 y que fue considerada una de las diez mejores novelas del año por Stephen King.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kemper on November 10, 2010

When I read and reviewed The Strain, I took some easy potshots at Twilight and credited Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan with trying to rescue vampires from the clutches of teenage girls and turn them into monsters again. However, the book didn’t wow me, and I was hoping that the next one would be......more

Goodreads review by Heidi on October 07, 2010

I'm not even sure why I read this, since the first book (The Strain) was mediocre at best. I guess I'm just a sucker (heh) for anything that combines vampires with apocalytpic plagues (my two favorite things!). In a nutshell, an ancient parasite resurfaces and takes the world by storm, turning peopl......more