Strain

In one week Manhattan could be gone.

An airplane arrives at New York’s JFK Airport, taxis along a runway and suddenly stops dead. All  the blinds are shut. All communication channels have mysteriously gone silent. Dr Ephraim Goodweather – head of a rapid response team investigating biological threats – boards the darkened plane … and what he finds makes his blood run cold.

In four weeks, the country.

In a pawn shop in Spanish Harlem, aged Holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian knows that the war he has finally began.

In eight weeks… the word.

Before the next sundown Eph and Setrakian must undertake the ultimate fight for survival.A terrifying contagion has come to the unsuspecting city – hungry, merciless, lethal … vampiric?