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Series: The Rats Trilogy
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Domain, the third in the Rats trilogy by international bestseller James Herbert, pits man against mutant rats, who are back with a vengeance. The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible...
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See moreJames Herbert’s Domain is the third novel in the bestselling horror classic series, the Rats trilogy.
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Domain, the third in the Rats trilogy by international bestseller James Herbert, pits man against mutant rats, who are back with a vengeance.
The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets—if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes. But below, the rats, demonic offspring of their irradiated forebears, are waiting.
They know that Man is weakened, become frail. Has become their prey...
Series: The Rats Trilogy
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The restless rats return in James Herbert's Lair, the second horror novel in the Rats trilogy. The mutant white rat had grown and mated, creating offspring in its own image. They dominated the others, the dark-furred ones, who foraged for food and brought it back to the lair. Now the dark rats were restless, tormented by a craving they could...Paperback$2500Unit price /UnavailableOut 20 Oct 2026Pre-order -
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Domain
Domain, the third in the Rats trilogy by international bestseller James Herbert, pits man against mutant rats, who are back with a vengeance. The long-dreaded nuclear conflict. The city torn apart, shattered, its people destroyed or mutilated beyond hope. For just a few, survival is possible only beneath the wrecked streets—if there is time to avoid the slow-descending poisonous ashes....Paperback$2800Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order
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ISBN: 9781037406256
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 July 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Macmillan
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 30.0mm
Width: 131.0mm
Height: 197.0mm
Weight: 334g
Pages: 496
About the Author
James Herbert was not only Britain's number one bestselling writer of chiller fiction - a position he held ever since the publication of his first novel - but was also one of our greatest popular novelists. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his twenty-three novels have sold more than 54 million copies worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty languages. In 2010, he was made the Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention and was awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to literature. His final novel was Ash. James Herbert died in March 2013.
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