Vampire thriller gets the blood racing Minneapolis Star Tribune

15.06.10

Iowa Writers Workshop graduate Justin Cronin's exchange from literary fiction to vampire trilogies has been one of the big book stories of the spring, even as his new novel, "The Avenue," has been heralded as one of the big books of the summer.

Blurbed by Stephen King and Jennifer Egan, "The Ordainment" is about a top-secret military experiment gone horribly wrong. The opening pages, told through a series of e-mails dispatched from the jungles of Bolivia, are agonizing. (If you are afraid of bats, don't read it after dark.)

In an interview with the New York Times, Cronin said that it had never been his resolute to cash in on the vampire craze, never read Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" books. Rather than, he was taking a bike ride with his 9-year-old daughter when they decided to come up with a story together.

The result is this engage, which prompted a bidding war and film options. Ballantine Books reportedly paid $3.75 million for the three books, says New York publication, and Ridley Scott paid $1.75 million for film rights.

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