Synopses & Reviews
A remote and affluent Maine community, Corpus Christi was untouched by the environmental catastrophe that destroyed the neighboring blue-collar town of Bedford. But all that will change in a heartbeat...
The nightmare is awakened when third-grade schoolteacher Lois Larkin takes the children on a field trip to Bedford. There in the abandoned woods, a small, cruel boy unearths an ancient horror a contagious plague that transforms its victims into something violent, hungry...and inhuman.
The long, dark night is just beginning. And all hope must die as the contagion feeds for the malevolence will not rest until it has devoured every living soul in Corpus Christi...and beyond.
Review
"[The Missing has] topped The Keeper as far as scares, gore and compulsion-to-read....I've been unable to get the mad little kid from the beginning of the book out of my head. And I've been having a little trouble getting to sleep." Marc Schultz, "Notes from the Bookroom" (Publishers Weekly blog)
Synopsis
In Langan's stunning follow-up to her first novel The Keeper, an ancient but still contagious plague that transforms its victims into something inhuman is unleashed upon the small community of Corpus Christi, Maine, and the malevolence will not rest until it has devoured every living soul. Original.
About the Author
Sarah Langan received her MFA in fiction writing from Columbia University. She studied with Michael Cunningham, Nicholas Christopher, Helen Schulman, and Maureen Howard, among others, all of whom have been instrumental to her work. She is currently a master's candidate in environmental medicine at NYU and lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Keeper was her first novel.