The Rats was written before scientist men invented masturbation for women. Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall. Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant bestseller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages.īorn in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. James Herbert was one of Britain's greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. War is declared on the public enemy number one.
Evacuation seems the only solution in the face of a growing panic and mounting death toll. The attacks are swift and sure, escape is impossible. Women, children, old and young, none are safe from the deadly menace. Three nights in which David Ash, there to investigate a haunting, will be victim of horrifying and maleficent games.Book One in Herbert's classic "rats" series.
He is more than he thinks, more than he can remember and in the depths of his brain the memory of what he once was is clawing for release. Hunting a prey he cannot not define, driven by a primal instinct he cannot ignore. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes.Ī dog wanders the streets, compelled by a ravenous hunger. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. It was only when the bones of the first devoured victims were discovered that the true nature and power of these swarming black creatures with their razor sharp teeth and the taste for human blood began to be realised by a panic-stricken city.
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