The Strain - Del Toro & Hogan (Släktet - Del Toro & Hogan)

Plot

Ephraim Goodweather, working for the Centre for Disease Control, gets called in on a mission when a newly landed airplane shows no sign of life. Eph and his assistent tries to figure out how all except four people on the plane has died. After seeing one of the crew members in his worst state, Eph realizes this is out of the CDC normal procedure. On the way he meets up with Professor Abraham Setrakian, the old man and a World War II concentration camp survivor, whom seem to know more about this, than anyone else. To help, they also gang up with Vasiliy Fet an rat exterminator working for the New York City Bureau of Pest Control.

What they get to hear about what has happened on that plane on the way from Germany to New York, no one was ever able to guess, and with Eph listed as a criminal, he, his son Zack, Vasiliy Fet, his assistan Nora and Abraham Setrakian decides that they are going to eliminate this problem. At the same time, a low life Mexican crook is out in the streets, doing some dirty work, but is he working towards the same goals as Eph and his friends, or is he trying to sabotage?

Opinion

The book is excellent. I think it remind me more of a criminal series on TV, but what to expect from the maker of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy in their first books of three about vampires?

We get a new look at vampires, so far from Bill Compton and Edward Cullen one could ever come! These vampires are frightening! But they do remind, in some ways of the vampire in Suzy McKee Charnas The Vampire Tapestry in how they feed but these vampires are so much more scary.
The books (as said) starts out as a criminal TV-series, but as you get further into it, it really gets scary and at some point, I was pretty sure New York were infected with this vampirism, at that point, the book really started to go under my skin, and it closed up on the only place one can feel safe, home. You realized, home might not be as safe as you once thought!

I would really recommend this to anyone! It's frightening, but still, quite an easy read, and you will get stuck in it, as soon as you have started to read it, almost impossible to put down... That's if you like vampires that goes bump in the dead of the night!

I can't wait to get my hands on the next book!

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