Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, Mary and O’Neil (which won the PEN/Hemingway Award and the Stephen Crane Prize), and The Summer Guest. Other honors for his writing include a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Whiting Writers’ Award. A Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
“Compulsively readable.”—The New York Times Book Review
“The City of Mirrors is poetry. Thrilling in every way it has to
be, but poetry just the same . . . The writing is sumptuous, the
language lovely, even when the action itself is dark and
violent.”—The Huffington Post
“This really is the big event you’ve been waiting for . . . A
true last stand that builds and comes with a bloody, roaring payoff
you won’t see coming, then builds again to the big face off you’ve
been waiting for.”—NPR
“A masterpiece . . . with The City of Mirrors, the third
volume in The Passage trilogy, Justin Cronin puts paid to what may
well be the finest post-apocalyptic epic in our dystopian-glutted
times. A stunning achievement by virtually every measure.”—The
National Post
“Justin Cronin’s Passage trilogy is remarkable for the unremitting
drive of its narrative, for the breathtaking sweep of its imagined
future, and for the clear lucidity of its language. The City of
Mirrors is a thrilling finale to a trilogy that will stand as one
of the great achievements in American fantasy fiction.”—Stephen
King
“Superb . . . This conclusion to bestseller Cronin’s apocalyptic
thriller trilogy ends with all of the heartbreak, joy, and
unexpected twists of fate that events in The Passage and The Twelve
foreordained.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Readers who have been patiently awaiting the conclusion to
Cronin’s sweeping postapocalyptic trilogy are richly rewarded with
this epic, heart-wrenching novel. . . . Not only does this title
bring the series to a thrilling and satisfying conclusion, but it
also exhibits Cronin’s moving exploration of love as both a
destructive force and an elemental need, elevating this work among
its dystopian peers.”—Library Journal (starred review)
Praise for The Passage
“Magnificent . . . Cronin has taken his literary gifts, and he has
weaponized them. . . . The Passage can stand proudly next to
Stephen King’s apocalyptic masterpiece The Stand, but a closer
match would be Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.”—Time
“Read this book and the ordinary world disappears.”—Stephen
King
“[A] big, engrossing read that will have you leaving the lights on
late into the night.”—The Dallas Morning News
The Twelve
“[A] literary superthriller, driven at once by character and
plot.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Gripping . . . Cronin [introduces] eerie new elements to his
masterful mythology.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune
“An undeniable and compelling epic . . . a complex narrative of
flight and forgiveness, of great suffering and staggering loss, of
terrible betrayals and incredible hope.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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