The Strain: Book One of the Strain Trilogy

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 Tribune

An 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.