A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.
In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .
So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city--a city that includes his wife and son--before it is too late.

The nail-biting vampire thriller from the world-famous director of Pan's Labyrinth and Hellboy. The night belongs to them, and it will be a night eternal...After the blasts, it was all over. Nuclear Winter has settled upon the earth. Except for one hour of sunlight a day, the whole world is plunged into darkness. It is a near-perfect environment for vampires. They have won. It is their time. Almost every single man, woman and child has been enslaved in vast camps across the globe. Like animals, they are farmed, harvested for the sick pleasure of the Master Race. Almost, but not all. Somewhere out there, hiding for their lives, is a desperate network of free humans, continuing the seemingly hopeless resistance. Everyday people, with no other options - among them Dr Ephraim Goodweather, his son Zack, the veteran exterminator Vassily, and former gangbanger Gus. To be free, they need a miracle, they need divine intervention. But Salvation can be a twisted game - one in which they may be played like pawns in a battle of Good and Evil. And at what cost...?

The visionary creator of the Academy Award-winning Pan's Labyrinth and a Hammett Award-winning author bring their imaginations to this bold, epic novel about a horrifying battle between man and vampire that threatens all humanity. It is the first installment in a thrilling trilogy and an extraordinary international publishing event.
The Strain
They have always been here. Vampires. In secret and in darkness. Waiting. Now their time has come.
In one week, Manhattan will be gone. In one month, the country.
In two months--the world.
A Boeing 777 arrives at JFK and is on its way across the tarmac, when it suddenly stops dead. All window shades are pulled down. All lights are out. All communication channels have gone quiet. Crews on the ground are lost for answers, but an alert goes out to the CDC. Dr. Eph Goodweather, head of their Canary project, a rapid-response team that investigates biological threats, gets the call and boards the plane. What he finds makes his blood run cold.
In a pawnshop in Spanish Harlem, a former professor and survivor of the Holocaust named Abraham Setrakian knows something is happening. And he knows the time has come, that a war is brewing . . .
So begins a battle of mammoth proportions as the vampiric virus that has infected New York begins to spill out into the streets. Eph, who is joined by Setrakian and a motley crew of fighters, must now find a way to stop the contagion and save his city--a city that includes his wife and son--before it is too late.

Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner, Walt Leppo, a decorated FBI agent who turns suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a rampaging murderer. The shooting, justified by self-defense, shakes the young FBI agent to her core. Devastated, Odessa is placed on desk leave pending a full investigation. But what most troubles Odessa isn't the tragedy itself-it's the shadowy presence she thought she saw fleeing the deceased agent's body after his death. Questioning her future with the FBI and her sanity, Hardwicke accepts a low-level assignment to clear out the belongings of a retired agent in the New York office. What she finds there will put her on the trail of a mysterious figure named John Silence, a man of enormous means who claims to have been alive for centuries, and who is either an unhinged lunatic, or humanity's best and only defense against unspeakable evil.

命運逃不掉，人生搶不搶得來？
無往不利的犯罪，不過是無止盡的困獸之鬥
為禁錮的心打開唯一一扇門的
竟然是自己槍管下脅迫的她！
四個生死與共的好友，一段意外的愛戀
最驚心動魄的搶案描寫，最深沈的天人交戰
改變，是可能的嗎？
四名搶匪闖入波士頓海灣銀行，挾持經理克萊兒‧基斯，手法兇狠精準，迅速將金庫洗劫一空，唯一的線索是搶匪頭戴的白色曲棍球面罩上，佈滿陰沉的黑色紋路，像是一道道傷痕縫線。而其中一對面罩後的眼睛，一直默默注視著克萊兒……
道格‧麥克雷曾經以為，在查爾斯鎮，人生沒有其他選擇。
過去，他是前程似錦的曲棍球明日之星，卻因為某個事件，步上獄中父親的後塵，與三個夥伴結為搶劫集團橫行街頭。快狠準的計畫，堅定不移的羈絆，讓他們在險惡的現實中生存下來，要是有人坐牢，搶來的錢一樣四人分，啤酒照樣叫四杯，永遠都有你的份──永遠也別想逃！這個犯罪之城，是他們僅有的全部，也是驕傲。
然而，對於另一種生活的渴望，在遇見克萊兒後開始騷動不安，他居然愛上了搶案的受害人，他居然開始夢想離開。越繼續接近她，就越增加暴露身分的風險，尤其嗅覺敏銳的FBI探員已在身後窮追不捨。想要脫下面具，又不得不戴上另一張臉孔，道格在愛戀之中難以自拔，面對同伴的期待和責任，故鄉的情感，過去的陰霾，陷入無盡的內心掙扎，原本合作無間的關係也瀕臨失控……他將這一切都賭在波士頓芬威棒球場，最後這一票會為道格的犯罪生涯畫下完美的句點，開啟新的人生嗎？
本書犯罪情節描寫張力十足，錯綜交織的人物關係與情感扣人心弦，同時也恰如其分地呈現了都市發展的種種矛盾。查爾斯鎮，老愛爾蘭移民藍領社區，曾以黑幫聞名，八零年代中也在城市發展不可抵的浪潮中逐漸改變了面貌。曾經是波士頓都會區見不得人的敗家子，搖身一變成為年輕雅痞的寵兒，時髦的生活風格進駐，衝擊了老鎮終年如一日的傳統價值和死守的尊嚴，看似重燃生機，卻是階級分明的兩個世界。戲劇性的情節背後，皆提醒著老鎮與鎮民艱難的社會位置，在心跳加速之後，吶喊將持續迴盪。

Depuis son atterrissage à l'aéroport de JFK à New York, un avion en provenance de Berlin ne répond plus à la tour de contrôle. Le spectacle qu'Ephraïm et son équipe d'épidémiologistes découvrent à bord a de quoi glacer le sang : tous les passagers, sauf quatre, sont morts en apparence paisiblement. Ont-ils été victimes d'un attentat au gaz ? D'une bactérie foudroyante ?

Lorsque, le soir même, deux cents cadavres disparaissent des morgues de la ville, Ephraïm comprend qu'une menace sans précédent plane sur New York. Lui et un petit groupe décident de s'organiser. Et pas seulement pour sauver leurs proches car c'est la survie de l'humanité tout entière qui est en jeu...