the fall

Obviously we were SERIOUSLY chuffed when this landed on our desks, so for all Stephen King and Guillermo del Toro fans, we thought we'd share this with you! But as you are incredibly busy people, we thought we'd also pull out the best quote for you here: 'This is one devilishly good read full of satisfying scares.'  We have one word for you. WOW. If that doesn't make you want to read it, we don't know what will. The Strain trilogy opened with an authentic wow moment: a Boeing 777 arrives at JFK airport with all but four of the passengers dead in their seats. The flashlight beams of the first responders "registered dully in the dead jewels of their open eyes." Not much later these corpses begin to rise from their morgue slabs, and a plague of blood-hungry predators overwhelms New York. The first hundred pages of The Strain is a sustained exercise in terror that held this reader in spellbound delight, because del Toro and Hogan write with crisp authenticity about both the fantastical (vampires) and the completely real (New York City, with all its odd nooks and crannies). Read More