- Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; New edition edition (12 Nov 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333761367
- ISBN-13: 978-0333761366
- Product Dimensions: 23 x 15.8 x 4.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,400,539 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A book that starts in Hell has got to be expertly paced, and no-one ever accused James Herbert, the British King of Horror, of lacking any of those skills. Hardly has a damned soul agreed to an angelic offer he cannot refuse than Nicholas Dismas is limping down the mean streets of contemporary Brighton, searching for a child who may not even exist. Nicholas has only one eye and is short, lame and hunchbacked; he finds himself living daily with the hatred a society obsessed with normality dishes out to those who cannot conform. This is a book about exploitation and prejudice, which touches some raw nerves; it makes you think as well as making you shudder. Dismas, who feels sorry for himself, but not too much of the time, is one of the more three-dimensional characters in Herbert's work, and his love for the tiny and beautiful Constance is genuinely touching, while not entirely avoiding sentimentality. There is horror of a classic visceral kind here--one of Dismas's colleagues dies in a peculiarly vile fashion--and a nursing home turns out to contain a real heart of darkness, but the real horror is the shabby ways in which people treat each other. --Roz Kaveney
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Nicholas Dismas is a private investigator, but like no other that has gone before him. He is hired to find a missing baby and his investigation leads him to discover the dark secret of the "Others", and resolves the enigma of his own existence.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
my god!!!!,
By Constance Bell "C.Bell" (Gothic England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Others (Hardcover)
my younger sister brought this book in a cheap shop and i first dismissed as one of her teenage 'loon' books.
how wrong could i be....i 'flip read' it just before i went on two week holdiay and my brain was blown away. i have never read a book like this ever before (or after). you felt for teh characters and the shabby way they are treated etc. it was such a strange book. it stayed with me long after i had read it. i've read some of herberts other books - but they dont really come close to this one. i wished i'd been clever enough to write somethign with oddball characters.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Horror virgin gives thumbs up,
By A Customer
This review is from: Others (Paperback)
Never read a horror book before, never really wanted to, wound up in hospital, nothing else to read, blew my mind, gave false readings to my heart monitor, still shaken. As far as I know, it's extremely original, and although it is slow to start with, it's worth sticking with. If this book doesn't scare the bejesus out of you, book yourself a room in PERFECT REST. Cheers.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
James Herbert does it again!,
By A Customer
This review is from: Others (Paperback)
When I first started this book it seemed to start off in the aurthor's usual fashion, dark and moody, but after about 30 pages slowed down. I was beginging to think that it was going to be a long read. But if you persevere it turns out to be a excellent ending that may even haunt or disturb you.
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