{"id":1207,"date":"2012-03-20T19:22:45","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T19:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2015-04-08T17:00:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T17:00:08","slug":"the-strain-by-guillermo-del-toro-and-chuck-hogan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1207","title":{"rendered":"The Strain: Book One of the Strain Trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  alignleft wp-image-1265\" title=\"The Strain\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/The-Strain2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"119\" height=\"180\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Boeing 777 jet arrives at JFK, stops dead and sits on the tarmac in darkness and silence.\u00a0 Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team, boards\u00a0to investigate.\u00a0 The mysterious being that seemingly killed every passenger aboard is the subject of this chilling trilogy about\u00a0a virus which brings the dead back as vampires.\u00a0 In a pawn shop in Harlem, holocaust survivor Abraham Setrakian has met this evil\u00a0and may have\u00a0the knowledge to destroy\u00a0it.\u00a0 After a riveting start, the story degenerates into killing after killing, as Eph&#8217;s\u00a0son, ex-wife, and friends are soon in danger.\u00a0 This one is still\u00a0a must for all horror fans and will soon be a major motion picture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Boeing 777 jet arrives at JFK, stops dead and sits on the tarmac in darkness and silence.\u00a0 Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, head of a CDC rapid-response team, boards\u00a0to investigate.\u00a0 The mysterious being that seemingly killed every passenger aboard is the subject of this chilling trilogy about\u00a0a virus which brings the dead back as vampires.\u00a0 In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=1207\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Strain: Book One of the Strain Trilogy by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-barbara-h"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}