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Title: The Strain: Book One of The Strain Trilogy
Author: Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck Hogan
Read By: Ron Perlman
Copyright: 2009
Audiobook Copyright: 2009
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Harper Audio
Series Name: The Strain Trilogy
Position in Series: 1
Abridged: No
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Book Description
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.
The Strain: Chapter One
"Once upon a time," said Abraham Setrakian’s grandmother, "there was
a giant."
Young Abraham’s eyes brightened, and immediately the cabbage borscht
in the wooden bowl got tastier, or at least less garlicky. He was a
pale boy, underweight and sickly. His grandmother, intent on fattening
him, sat across from him while he ate his soup, entertaining him by
spinning a yarn.
A bubbeh meiseh, a "grandmother’s story." A fairy tale. A legend.
"He was the son of a Polish nobleman. And his name was Jusef Sardu.
Master Sardu stood taller than any other man. Taller than any roof in
the village. He had to bow deeply to enter any door. But his great height,
it was a burden. A disease of birth, not a blessing. The young man suffered.
His muscles lacked the strength to support his long, heavy bones. At
times it was a struggle for him just to walk. He used a cane, a tall
stick--taller than you--with a silver handle carved into the shape of
a wolf’s head, which was the family crest."
"Yes, Bubbeh?" said Abraham, between spoonfuls.
"This was his lot in life, and it taught him humility, which is a rare
thing indeed for a nobleman to possess. He had so much compassion--
for the poor, for the hardworking, for the sick. He was especially dear
to the [CENSORED]ren of the village, and his great, deep pockets--the size
of turnip sacks--bulged with trinkets and sweets. He had not much of
a [CENSORED]hood himself, matching his father’s height at the age of eight,
and surpassing him by a head at age nine. His frailty and his great
size were a secret source of shame to his father. But Master Sardu truly
was a gentle giant, and much beloved by his people. It was said of him
that Master Sardu looked down on everyone, yet looked down on no one."-
She nodded at him, reminding him to take another spoonful. He chewed
a boiled red beet, known as a "baby heart" because of its color, its
shape, its capillary-like strings. "Yes, Bubbeh?"
"He was also a lover of nature, and had no interest in the brutality
of the hunt--but, as a nobleman and a man of rank, at the age of fifteen
his father and his uncles prevailed upon him to accompany them on a
six-week expedition to Romania."
"To here, Bubbeh?" said Abraham. "The giant, he came here?"
"To the north country, kaddishel. The dark forests. The Sardu men, they
did not come to hunt wild pig or bear or elk. They came to hunt wolf,
the family symbol, the arms of the house of Sardu. They were hunting
a hunting animal. Sardu family lore said that eating wolf meat gave
Sardu men courage and strength, and the young master’s father believed
that this might cure his son’s weak muscles."
"Yes, Bubbeh?"
"Their trek was long and arduous, as well as violently opposed by the
weather, and Jusef struggled mightily. He had never before traveled
anywhere outside his family’s village, and the looks he received from
strangers along the journey shamed him. When they arrived in the dark
forest, the woodlands felt alive around him. Packs of animals roamed
the woods at night, almost like refugees displaced from their shelters,
their dens, nests, and lairs. So many animals that the hunters were
unable to sleep at night in their camp. Some wanted to leave, but the
elder Sardu’s obsession came before all else. They could hear the wolves,
crying in the night, and he wanted one badly for his son, his only son,
whose gigantism was a pox upon the Sardu line. He wanted to cleanse
the house of Sardu of this curse, to marry off his son, and produce
many healthy heirs.
"And so it was that his father, off tracking a wolf, was the first to
become separated from the others, just before nightfall on the second
evening. The rest waited for him all night, and spread out to search
for him after sunrise. And so it was that one of Jusef’s cousins failed
to return that evening. And so on, you see."
"Yes, Bubbeh?"
"Until the only one left was Jusef, the boy giant. That next day he
set out, and in an area previously searched, discovered the body of
his father, and of all his cousins and uncles, laid out at the entrance
to an underground cave. Their skulls had been crushed with great force,
but their bodies remained uneaten--killed by a beast of tremendous strength,
yet not out of hunger or fear. For what reason, he could not guess—though
he did feel himself being watched, perhaps even studied, by some being
lurking within that dark cave.
"Master Sardu carried each body away from the cave and buried them deep.
Of course, this exertion severely weakened him, taking most of his strength.
He was spent, he was farmutshet. And yet, alone and scared and exhausted,
he returned to the cave that night, to face what evil revealed itself
after dark, to avenge his forebears or die trying. This is known from
a diary he kept, discovered in the woods many years later. This was
his last entry."
Continue Reading The Strain --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.-
Product Description
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.
