- Hardcover: 272 pages
- Publisher: Macmillan; New edition edition (24 Mar 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0333761200
- ISBN-13: 978-0333761205
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 445,041 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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It had been one of the worst crashes in airline history, with over 300 dead and only one survivor. Now the dead were buried and the town of Eton tried to forget. But Keller, the survivor, wanted to know what unseen forces had left him still alive.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Great first halflousy ending,
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This review is from: The Survivor (Paperback)
With his third novel James Herbert finally manages to abandon the unnatural disaster genre he'd developed with The Rats and The Fog, and steps firmly into supernatural horror. Unfortunately he's only semi-successful.The Survivor has a great premise - a lone man steps from the wreckage of a crashed jumbo jet. Why did he survive? What is haunting the crash site? The first half is great stuff, with the amnesiac survivor slowly piecing together his memories, while the spirits of those who died in the crash begin to take their revenge on the townspeople. Unfortunately the wings fall off the plot in the second half (if you'll forgive the expression), with a bad B-movie villain revealed as responsible for the crash, and a confusing and unnecessary subplot of an evil magician who - by complete chance - just happened to have been travelling on the doomed plane as well. This messy ending makes this ultimately one of Herbert's less satisfying works, but before the anticlimax there's some fun to be had along the way with some well done horror scenes. A great idea, but badly plotted book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well Crafted Suspense Horror,
By Rainy-Day-Reading (Birmingham UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Survivor (Paperback)
Hello all
Having read most of Herbert's work and the reviews on here it is noticeable that some people don't get this book. An aircraft crashes above Eton leaving only the co-pilot as a survivor who tries to piece together what happened if only to put himself at ease with the possibility of human error and his own feelings of guilt. Various threads interact these being the above co-pilot, an air crash investigator and his pet theory, a spiritualist trying to help the lost souls find peace, and a town subjected to hauntings and horror. For those who didn't get the child/doll part of the plot a black magician was using other bodies/souls to haunt the townsfolk and lure them to death. The ending that appears to leave some people cold was straight out of the Tales Of The Unexpected TV programme, and for me is the only ending that could have worked as all other possibilities are discounted in the story. The characters are well-crafted and it is an enjoyable book to read.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A descriptive and disturbing story that delivers the demons.,
By msuxr@csv.warwick.ac.uk (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Survivor (Paperback)
Now having read half the James Herbert novels I wish I had started to read them in chronological order so that I could see his development in story telling. The Survivor is I believe his third book and shows signs that Herbert was still developing his technique. The storyline is brilliant yet I was left feeling empty and unsatisfied with the final result. As usual Herbert provides plenty of ghost and ghouls and brings his familiar clairvoyant appearences (eg. 'Others') into the well structured story, yet I was left seeing little relavance as to why the demons were present and why the girl and doll were the main ghosts. Although don't believe what I'm saying, read it for yourself. Maybe if I read it a second time, I might understand it a bit better. If anyone can explain my misunderstandings, please let me know.
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