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Chapters (47)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. The Legend of Jusef Sardu
  6. The Beginning
  7. N323RG Cockpit Voice Recorder
  8. The Landing
  9. JFK International Control Tower
  10. Now Boarding
  11. Worth Street, Chinatown
  12. Interlude I
  13. Arrival
  14. Regis Air Maintenance Hangar
  15. Occultation
  16. Approaching Totality
  17. Awakening
  18. Regis Air Maintenance Hangar
  19. Interlude II
  20. Movement
  21. Coach
  22. The First Night
  23. Interlude III
  24. Dawn
  25. 17th Precinct Headquarters, East Fifty-first Street, Manhattan
  26. The Old Professor
  27. Knickerbocker Loans and Curios, East 118th Street, Spanish Harlem
  28. The Second Night
  29. Exposure
  30. Canary Headquarters, Eleventh Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street
  31. Final Interlude
  32. Replication
  33. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
  34. Daylight
  35. Bushwick, Brooklyn
  36. Lair
  37. Worth Street, Chinatown
  38. The Clan
  39. Nazareth, Pennsylvania
  40. Epilogue
  41. Kelton Street, Woodside, Queens
  42. Acknowledgments
  43. About the Authors
  44. Other Books by Chuck Hogan
  45. Credits
  46. Copyright
  47. About the Publisher
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CHUCK HOGAN is the author of several acclaimed novels, including The Standoff and Prince of Thieves, which won the 2005 Hammett Award and was called one of the ten best novels of the year by Stephen King. Prince of Thieves will soon be a major motion picture.

Other Books by Chuck Hogan

ALSO BY CHUCK HOGAN

The Killing Moon

Prince of Thieves

The Blood Artists

The Standoff

Credits

Credits

Jacket design by Ervin Serrano

Copyright

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

THE STRAIN. Copyright © 2009 by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Adobe Digital Edition May 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-188233-3

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About the Publisher

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Contents

The Legend of Jusef Sardu

The Beginning

N323RG Cockpit Voice Recorder

The Landing

JFK International Control Tower

Now Boarding

Worth Street, Chinatown

Interlude I

Arrival

Regis Air Maintenance Hangar

Occultation

Approaching Totality

Awakening

Regis Air Maintenance Hangar

Interlude II

Movement

Coach

The First Night

Interlude III

Dawn

17th Precinct Headquarters, East Fifty-first Street, Manhattan

The Old Professor

Knickerbocker Loans and Curios, East 118th Street, Spanish Harlem

The Second Night

Exposure

Canary Headquarters, Eleventh Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street

Final Interlude

Replication

Jamaica Hospital Medical Center

Daylight

Bushwick, Brooklyn

Lair

Worth Street, Chinatown

The Clan

Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Epilogue

Kelton Street, Woodside, Queens

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Other Books by Chuck Hogan

Credits

Copyright

About the Publisher

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