...A transatlantic airliner with dead passengers lands at the New York airport. Subsequently, the passengers come to life, only they are no longer people, but fiends of hell, merciless vampires... This is how the first book of the trilogy, “The Strain,” begins. In the second book - “Sunset” - a bloodthirsty and blood-sucking virus in human form is spreading throughout the entire planet. The vampire king - the Lord - is ready to exterminate the human race. He is still opposed by the old professor Abraham Setrakyan, the epidemiologist Ephraim Goodweather, the doctor Nora Martinez and the rat catcher Vasily Fet. The new book is full of even greater horror: it seems that the human world is really on the brink of destruction. But Setrakian and Goodweather understand: there are things much worse than death...