The Passage (The Passage, #1)

by Justin Cronin

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

Wolgast is a man who’s been lying to himself, and it’s time for him to snap out of it. Sykes recruited him because of his daughter’s death—even at the time, Wolgast understood the manipulation, but decided to go with it anyway—and since then, he’s gotten one signal after another that Project Noah is a horrible idea. And yet, until now, he’s chosen to ignore them; it’s easier to just go along. His job recruiting the inmates is an analgesic for the pain of Eva’s death, and he’s also very good at it—a man who can “sell sunlamps in a cancer ward.” What jars him from his compliant stupor is, of course, Amy. She turns him back into a father—the man he truly is—and what choice does a father have but to protect his child?