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Then again, either one of these tissue-thin plots would, on their own, be not only little more effective but utterly unable to carry a novel.

Old Soldier: SAS Major Gerald Snaith and MBE Charles Mather, having sustained a permanent limp, serve respectively as Controller and Planner for Achilles' Shield. With his third novel, the ghost story The Survivor, Herbert used supernatural horror rather than the science fiction horror of his first two books. Interred in the Majdanek concentration camp for (reluctantly) bringing food to the Polish resistance, starvation drove him to eat the flesh of corpses. The Mole: Magma chief executive Henry Quinn-Reece, to rival company Consolidated Ores, leaks Kline's latest mineral find.Originally published in 1987, this novel was written in the middle of James Herbert’s career, an author who has been referred to as the British Stephen King. There is relentless ferocity to Herbert's story-telling, however, that drags you along for the ride. For the main part, the story is set at Neath, Kline's extremely gothic sounding country residence with characters including Cora his beautiful devoted assistant and a bunch of extremely sadistic and violent bodyguards collected from all corners of the world. Yet there were also areas of dazzling light, the sun bursting through leaded windows with a force intensified by thick glass; these were cleansing places, where Neath's dank chill could be scoured from the body, although only briefly as other rooms, other corridors, were entered, brightness left behind like some sealed core. Although I hate to feel like I can so easily forgive such gross Political Incorrectness in favor of a cheap thrill.

White Void Room: Magma's corporate tower has a completely blank room, whose lit walls show glaring white, grey, and a void of total darkness. Allow me to distill them: we've got an American serial killer, a Polish cannibal, and two degenerate Arabs that prove to be homosexual rapists.It sits awkwardly between the most clichéd deep ends of the two, the one making no attempt at all to engage with the other besides fouling up its every passage. On Shay's shooting of Daoud, Khayed manages to stab the hitman, before succumbing to his own gun wound.