I catch up with Cronin on a sunny Saturday in Philadelphia. "That was one of the great moments of my life, right? The voice from above, on TV." I'd love to know," he says, the curiosity genuine. We sent him a copy, I don't know how long ago. So, I ask Cronin when we meet, does he know what King makes of The Twelve, the follow-up to The Passage? "I don't. Fans of the novel, which has been translated into more than 40 languages, included Stephen King, who called Cronin while the latter was live on TV to express his admiration. Instructed by his young daughter to write a book about a girl who saves the world, the Texas-based academic produced an 800-page slab of full-blooded fantasy entertainment that earned him a $3.75m three-book deal and sales of 200,000 in the UK alone. The story of how Justin Cronin's 2010 vampire blockbuster The Passage came about is now well known.
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