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Domain
- The Rats Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 14 hrs and 19 mins
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Imagine: the scrabble of little claws, the cold slither of hairless tails.… That is just part of the terror of James Herbert's third book in the chilling Rats Series. Domain imagines a horrible post-apocalyptic world in which humans must compete with rats to survive the nuclear holocaust. David Rintoul's performance is truly disturbing in the best ways! Rintoul is able to ratchet up the suspense in Herbert's novel until it almost feels as if the rats are right below you!
Summary
Book Three in Herbert’s classic ‘rats’ series. The final countdown. 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 irradiated forebears, are waiting. They know that Man is weakened, become frail. Man has become their prey.
James Herbert was one of Britain’s greatest popular novelists and our #1 best-selling writer of chiller fiction. Widely imitated and hugely influential, he wrote 23 novels which have collectively sold over 54 million copies worldwide and been translated into 34 languages.
Born in London in the forties, James Herbert was art director of an advertising agency before turning to writing fiction in 1975. His first novel, The Rats, was an instant bestseller and is now recognised as a classic of popular contemporary fiction.
Herbert went on to publish a new top ten best-seller every year until 1988. He wrote six more bestselling novels in the 1990s and three more since: Once, Nobody True and The Secret of Crickley Hall.
Herbert died in March 2013 at the age of 69.
Critic reviews
"There are few things I would like to do less than lie under a cloudy night sky while someone read aloud the more vivid passages of Moon. In the thriller genre, do recommendations come any higher?" (Andrew Postman, The New York Times Book Review)
"Herbert goes out in a blaze of glory" ( Daily Mail)
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- Amazon Customer
- 07-05-18
very good. a must
Yes I liked it so mush, would here again when I get some time to do so.
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- Abigail Adams
- 05-05-22
Love it love it love it
Loved this book i really enjoyed all 3 of the rats novels but this was by far my favourite book !!!
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- Bouncing Tigga
- 07-08-22
Loved it
Loved every minute of this series of books. Very well read, the tones of the readers voice has many pitches and so made the story believable.
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- J. Lynch
- 19-01-23
Finished at last
The most horrifying story I have ever listened to. Much more horrifying to listen to than read
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- Karen
- 25-06-14
A good end to the trilogy!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
I would recommend this book to a friend...and have! The Rats will never be beaten, and in my opinion Lair was a not as good as the Rats, but this could be simply because the story had lost its shock value on its audience. However, with the apocalyptic theme the shock value returns in this book and gives a hard hitting view of how the survivors cope with the aftermath and the attacking rats. The story lets the imagination run riot and there were certainly some moments that made me flinch and cringe! The attacks get a little repetitive towards the end, as well as some of the characters’ reactions. However this is still a good read. If you enjoyed The Rats you will undoubtedly enjoy Domain.
Who was your favorite character and why?
I didn't really have a favourite character, probably because there was no point getting attached to any of them as they were dropping like flies!
What does David Rintoul bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you had only read the book?
David Rintoul was great at narrating this book and gave it oodles of passion and added intenseness. However, he was speaking a little too fast at some points when the action was going, although this probably would have been fine if it weren't for the fact I was listening to it in the car which has added motorway driving noise added. Also, there seemed to be a bit of an echo all the way through which sometimes made it hard to understand what was being said.
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- V. Cooney
- 14-06-17
A horror masterpiece
Thanks to some brilliant narration and even better writing this visceral and tense story of a London in ruins was hard to put down. At times feeling close to the characters and at others wishing to distance myself from their plight this was a brilliant story. Intense, graphic and at times beautifully raw story telling gives the reader a grim reality of life after the bombs... And it is not just the terror of the world gone mad... The survivors of the ultimate horrors contend with an all too familiar and deadly beast... The rats!
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- Helen
- 18-07-20
Gorefest!
Another Brill book by James Herbert, read extremely well by David Rintoul. Gloriously gory with characters that you really start to care about. The well written descriptions of the scenes and the emotive way the narrator reads, puts you right there in the story. The book is set in London, during the 1980s, in a time before the Internet or mobile phones, with nuclear bombs laying waste to civilisation. A group of people are trying to survive while a species of Rats start to come from underground..... I recommend this to all horror fans!
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- John
- 05-10-21
BRILLIANT
Fantastic Third Book, ending one of the greatest horror trilogies, these books need to be made into mega movies, not like the early American one of The Rats made for TV film, or each book could be made into mini series.. Read it when l was a teenager, 40 years later still outstanding 👏
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- rachel sowerby
- 09-03-22
classic
the master of Britain horror strikes again with this spine tingling rapid fire Rat fest. characters never blown out of proportion with a great combination of realities of War and its consequences coupled with the fiction of the giant rats
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- John Fowlie
- 03-07-22
excellent story
Absolutely loved it . Had read it years ago but was much better on audible.
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