The City of Mirrors

Great trilogy with a fantastic last book! Cronin took a lot of idea from The Stand for sure. He writes a series about a government created virus that wipes out most of the world and people are trying to survive, but He gives a supernatural twist making it about Vampires. Yes please! He has a character named Rand, as in Randall Flagg... Come on that's too easy. His main antagonist, Zero is also very similar to Flagg but Cronin does such a good job with Zero. This book sets off after they killed The Twelve and are now preparing for Zero's wrath but he's much stronger and deadlier than the twelve. Cronin gives a lot of the beginning to give a background of Zero's life to give you a little compassion for him, which I love a good guy/bad guy antagonist. Cronin also gave one of the best endings to a book I've ever read.