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The Twelve

The Twelve is a 2012 horror novel by Justin Cronin and is the second novel in The Passage trilogy, following the novel The Passage. The Twelve was published on October 16, 2012 by Ballantine Books. The trilogy was concluded with the publishing of The City of Mirrors, which was released in 2016.The film rights to the three novels were acquired in 2007 for adaptation into a film trilogy, but after 12 years of development and planning, it has been changed to a television series, premiering in January 2019.

Bradford J. Wolgast
The Passage Trilogy, The Passage (2010)
Source: The Twelve