
Various characters are variously exposed to the virus, some developing superpowers, others evincing signs of potential Immortality, others dying. The Passage sequence "presents a complexly plotted set of interweaving stories, beginning in the near future, mainly in an America savagely afflicted by pollution and ecological degradation a contagious virus, whose source is a South American bat, creates vampire-like creatures who transform this already mutilated world, savagely reducing the human population to small, beleaguered cohorts of survivors. The first book of The Passage sequence, followed by THE TWELVE (2012) and THE CITY OF MIRRORS (2016).

Signed by Cronin on the recto of the credits leaf.
