One of the most anticipated releases of 2016,The City of Mirrors is Justin Cronin’s final book in the trilogy that began with The Passage (2010) and continued in The Twelve (2012). Read an extract, before its publication in JuneRain was falling as Alicia approached the city. Seen from above in the soft morning light, or the river was as she’d imagined it: wide,shaded, ceaselessly flowing.
Beyond it rose the spires of the city, and dense as a forest. Ruined piers jutted from the banks; wrecks of ships were washed against the shoals. In a century,the waters had risen. The south end of the island looked fully submerged, waves lapping against the sides of the buildings, and black as ink.
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Source: theguardian.com