The unmissable new action-thriller from one of the biggest names in British fiction
- the No 1 bestselling author of The Ghosts of Sleath Haunted The Magic Cottage & The Rats. As millions of readers around the world will testify James Herbert's ability to shock & enthral is matchless. Now in '48 he has surpassed his own remarkable achievements to create an electrifying new novel of pure heart-stopping action & invention that will take readers to new levels of terror & excitement. In 1945 Hitler unleashes the Blood Death on Britain as his final act of vengeance. Hoke an American pilot & one of a tiny minority with a rare blood group unaffected by the deadly disease has survived alone among the debris & the dead of London for three years. Now in 1948 a slow-dying group of Fascist Blackshirts believe their only hope is a transfusion of blood from one of Hoke's kind. Ever more desperate as their deaths approach they're after his blood.