

And now, the third and final novel, The City of Mirrors, will finally reveal the source of the vampire virus, the man known as Zero (“In life I was a scientist called Fanning.


The second book in the trilogy, The Twelve, deepened the series’s mythology and moved the action to Texas and Iowa. Easily the best thing to come out of our 21st-century obsession with vampires, Justin Cronin’s 2010 breakout novel The Passagetook a high-concept premise-a biological vampire virus that reduces human civilization to a single (as far as we know), well-armed outpost in California-and grounded it in literary prose and a vivid sense of place.
