The Complete Strain Trilogy: The Strain, The Fall, The Night Eternal. Guillermo Toro del
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The Strain Trilogy
GUILLERMO DEL TORO and CHUCK HOGAN
Contents
The Strain
The Fall
The Night Eternal
BOOK I
OF The Strain Trilogy
GUILLERMO DEL TORO and CHUCK HOGAN
To Lorenza, Mariana, and Marisa …
and
to all the monsters in my nursery:
May you never leave me alone
—GDT
For Lila
—CH
Contents
The Legend of Jusef Sardu
JFK International Control Tower
Worth Street, Chinatown
Interlude I: Abraham Setrakian
Regis Air Maintenance Hangar
Interlude II: The Burning Hole
17th Precinct Headquarters, East Fifty-first Street, Manhattan
Knickerbocker Loans and Curios, East 118th Street, Spanish Harlem
Canary Headquarters, Eleventh Avenue and Twenty-seventh Street
Jamaica Hospital Medical Center
Epilogue: Kelton Street, Woodside, Queens
“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