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The Strain by Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan
3.0

This book blends three horrors - viral outbreak, zombies and vampires - and makes something new out of them.

A plane lands in New York, and shortly thereafter goes completely dark. No one knows why. There were no calls for help. The CDC's "canary" team, named after the birds that warn miners when the air goes bad, is sent in to investigate. What they find makes no sense.

An old pawn broker who survived World War II has seen this before, and wants to help Eph's team, but to a modern mind he's spouting nonsense and superstition.