The Strain by Guillermo Del Toro & Chuck Hogan

I love thrillers, the mile a minute action wrapped up in intense characters and exciting plots. And if there's a vampire angle, I like it even better! This book just came out and I had to read it as soon as it hit the shelves. Enjoy!

When a plane lands at JFK Airport and goes dark, no one has any idea the horror that lies within. Expecting a hostage situation, investigators are stunned to discover all but 4 passengers dead when they board the plane. Suspecting that a disease caused the deaths and fearing a contagion, the authorities call in recently divorced Dr. Ephraim Goodweather, head of a Center for Disease Control team trained to deal with this type of emergency. Goodweather is spending a custody weekend with his son Zack, who he loves very much; a weekend cut short by the emergency call. After they board the plane, Goodweather and his colleague Nora Kelly determine that all the passengers died in the short time between it's touchdown to when the SWAT team arrived. Following standard protocol, the bodies are bagged and sent to morgues in and around Manhattan. And that’s where the trouble begins. For this is not a disease; but something darker, virulent and conscious; a thing that has crossed the ocean to replicate itself on our shores. Goodweather and Kelly note that each corpse has a small, slit like wound on the neck. Alarmed, they request that the survivors not be discharged, but are overruled. Then when they check on the bodies in the morgue, they find they've disappeared. They discover that the disease is a parasitic worm, transmitted by a stinger, whose bite transforms the victim into a blood craving vampire overnight. They team up with aged former professor and pawnshop owner Abraham Setrakian; a man with prior knowledge of the threat they are facing. Setrakian encountered a creature known as the Master while in Treblinka, one of Germany’s death camps; and watched it glut itself upon prisoners too ill to survive. Escaping the camp, he pursued the Master, but never was able to catch him before he slipped away. Now, Goodweather, Kelly and Setrakian try to contain the chaos caused by the rising multitudes of undead using Setrakian’s arsenal of antivampire armaments. But within just a day, the houses of the City begin to go dark. Will they be able to contain the vampires before they take over New York City and prevail against the Master? Full of horror, terror and a sense of pervasive doom, this excellent horror thriller should be read with the lights on. A great twist on the vampire mythos. First in the Strain trilogy.