Chuck Hogan Books in Order

A rookie FBI agent, Odessa Hardwicke, is forced to shoot her partner when he suddenly turns murderous and seems to shed a shadowy presence as he dies. Suspended and shaken, she turns to enigmatic occult investigator Hugo Blackwood and uncovers entities that ride human hosts like vehicles.

Set years after the outbreak, this finale to The Strain trilogy finds vampires ruling a nuclear winter police state and humans reduced to livestock or rebels. Ephraim Goodweather and his allies must decipher the Occido Lumen and confront the Master in one last, brutal gamble.

The second Strain novel follows Ephraim Goodweather, Abraham Setrakian, and their small band as New York collapses under a spreading vampiric plague. While the Master tightens his grip, they race to secure an ancient text, the Occido Lumen, that may reveal how to kill him.

When a passenger jet lands at JFK with nearly everyone aboard dead, CDC doctor Ephraim Goodweather expects a virus, not a coffin like box and bodies that refuse to stay still. Teaming with survivor Abraham Setrakian, he faces the opening move of a calculated vampire invasion.