The City

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Part of the Rats trilogy; international bestseller James Herbert's Domain pits man against mutant rats; who are back with a vengeance. A young art teacher from east London named Harris enquires one of his students about the bandage on his hand, to which he replies that it was caused by a rat attack. His best novels, The Rats and The Fog, had the effect of Mike Tyson in his championship days: no finesse, all crude power.He relentlessly draws the reader through the story's ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. The story wasn't as eerie as I remember, nothing goes bump in the night, not even when reading it at night in the middle of the woods. As a result, the city once again came to face the wrath of the giant rats, this time from the white ones. Harris kills it along with all the other giant rats and hopes that he has saved the city from the wrath of the black rats. When James Herbert published his first novel, The Rats (1974), at the age of 30, it was an immediate bestseller.

The next book in The Rats series written by author James Herbert was published under the title ‘Lair’. Born in London, [3] Herbert was the son of Herbert Herbert, [4] a stall-holder at London's Brick Lane Market.Maurice and Mog", about a man living in his nuclear shelter with a cat, was originally a chapter of Domain that was excised from some editions of the novel.