There is very little about the phrase “post-apocalyptic vampire thriller” that does not appeal to me. In the second volume of this bestselling trilogy, The Twelve, an exasperated military leader set out the conceit neatly: “You decided to re-engineer an ancient virus that would transform a dozen death row inmates into indestructible monsters who live on blood, and you didn’t think to tell anyone about this?” But this brief summary doesn’t quite encapsulate what made the first volume, The Passage, so accomplished. The first 300 pages of that novel introduced Wolgast, the FBI agent tasked with securing the subjects for the experiment. He was already concerned that Carter, the last convict, seemed innocent; when he was told also to obtain a young orphan, Amy, his conscience was stretched too far.
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