Others

Written by James Herbert

Narrated by Robert Powell

Nicholas Dismas is a Private Investigator, but like no other that has gone before him. He carries a secret about himself to which not even he has the answer . . .

He is hired to find a missing baby. One that was taken away at birth . . . Or was it?

His investigation takes him to a mysteriously located place called Perfect Rest. It is supposed to be a nursing home for the elderly . . . But is it?

Here Dismas will discover the dark secret of the Others. And in an astonishing and spectacular finale he will resolve the enigma of his own existence . . .

• Language: English
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Release date: May 4, 2007
• ISBN: 9780230701526

James Herbert

James Herbert was not only Britain’s number one bestselling writer of chiller fiction, a position he held ever since 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 fifty-four million copies worldwide, and have been translated into over thirty languages, including Russian and Chinese. In 2010, he was made the Grand Master of Horror by the World Horror Convention and was also awarded an OBE by the Queen for services to literature. His final novel was Ash. James Herbert died in March 2013.

Reviews for Others

[michaelajans · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

great holiday read

[hillianbakker · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

i am busy reading this book at the moment. It is a bit long with too much off the road stuff.the plot is good

[wyvernfriend · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

An interesting story featuring a detective and what happens when he tries to find a child, believed dead when it was born but a psychic tells her that the child is still alive.It's an interesting book, with an interesting character and some very strange twists.

[tanthonyam · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Others is a fairly standard James Herbert horror/detective novel in terms of plotting, with private investigator Nick Dismas following the trail of a missing baby to a sinister rest home ( a setting used by Herbert just 4 novels previously in Creed), complete with a malevolent Doctor and medical monstrosities shackled in the basement. What makes Others more interesting than just another horror-by-numbers is Herbert’s decision to have both the lead male and female characters (let alone most of the supporting cast) suffer from physical deformity – the result is a horror novel rich in the flavour of such films as The Elephant Man and Freaks. For additional supernatural interest the hero also turns out to be a reincarnated Hollywood movie star, who is seeking redemption for his past crimes. The book is occasionally uneven in tone (witness the comedic Hell-bound first chapter), and feels a little bloated in the middle (at 500 pages this could have done with some serious editing), and occasionally Herbert’s desire to push the horror to the extremes tips the novel into the realms of the ridiculous (such as the pornographic starring giant-penis-wielding mutant at the climax) but generally Others is one of Herbert’s more interesting novels, thanks to it’s unlikely hero.