But despite being nearly as long as both of the previous books combined, it probably has less than half of the rat content of either of those books on their own. I hate to be a wet blanket, and I hope Herbert derived income and pride and a sense of doing something important with this book. 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. They know that Man is weakened, become frail. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of irradiated forebears, are waiting. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets - if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. Book Three in Herbert’s classic ‘rats’ series.
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