The Twelve

Dan Karlovic. Chief engineer of Freeport refinery complex.

THE HOMELAND

Jackie. A worker.

Eustace. An insurgent.

Nina. An insurgent.

Vale. A human resources officer.

Whistler. A human resources officer.

Sod. A human resources officer.

Dr. Verlyn. A physician.

Dani. An attendant in the Dome.

Jenny. An attendant in the Dome.

Fred Wilkes. Chief of staff.

Vikram Suresh. Minister of public health.

Aidan Hoppel. Minister of propaganda.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Every book needs friends, and this one has many. A big ole tip of the hat to: Ellen Levine at Trident Media Group; Mark Tavani and Libby McGuire at Ballantine Books; Bill Massey at Orion; Gina Centrello, president of the Random House Publishing Group; Claire Roberts at Trident Media; the spectacular production, publicity, marketing and sales teams at Random House, Orion, and my many publishers around the world; Jennifer (“Jenny”) Smith; and the English Department of Rice University. On matters military, I am especially indebted to Adrian Hoppel. Thanks also to Rudy Ramos, sniper-dentist, and Coert Voorhees. Mark and Bill: Pour yourselves a frosty, my brothers; you’ve earned it. Ellen: No truer friend have I.

To the members of Team Cronin, large and small, I say: Without you, nothing. Thank you for my life.

My gratitude to you all.

ALSO BY JUSTIN CRONIN

The Summer Guest

Mary and O’Neil

IN THE PASSAGE TRILOGY

The Passage

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, 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.