The PassageBY JUSTIN CRONIN, ORION, $35.
This, the first book in a trilogy from Harvard graduate, university English professor and novelist Justin Cronin, has already netted a $4.4million book deal and $2.07 million in film rights, with the movie due to be made by Robin Hood director Ridley Scott.
This is a weighty (766 pages) post-apocalyptic tale of military human drug experiments gone wrong, with nuclear chips implanted in people’s necks, “weaponised bodies” at large and a terrifying breakdown of society. Cronin’s effortlessly deft prose, description and characterisation grasp you by the throat from the outset.
As the tension mounts, the worlds of a six-year-old girl abandoned at a convent, her saviour and surrogate father – an FBI agent with a heart – and that of a death row inmate and innocent, commuted to secret government drug experiment Project Noah, curiously interweave. Prepare to page turn – at speed.
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