They're dropping nukes, it's the end of the road, hide in the bunkers - wait. Why are the bomb shelters filled with rats?

Aw hell, here we go again.

At least I'm leaning so far into the rats winning that I no longer really care about the humans. At this point let them win. They've earned it.

Also it's now I realize this is not a trilogy but a quadrilogy. I expected this to be the end, but alas, it is not. I'm not sure how it can keep going from here. I guess I'll have to find out. ( )

Absolutely loved the final part of the rats trilogy, based during war time the use of the underground tunnels and the feeling of isolation and desperation was at times unnerving.
My favourite of the trilogy. Fantastic story ( )

Rats, rats everywhere, giant mutant rats as big as dogs... If postnuclear London wasn't bad enough, for Steve Culver et. al. there are these giant mutant rats leftover from Herbert's previous two novels to deal with. And rabid dogs, and crazy people too.

Setting the story in a post apocalyptic world lets Herbert free himself from any of the kind of plausibility boundaries that held the previous two volumes in the Rat trilogy back. Herbert can just let his imagination go. In addition, Herbert's prose and metaphor have improved significantly beyond the "see spot run" that marred particularly the first volume: [b:The Rats|397867|The Rats (Rats, #1)|James Herbert|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1356454885s/397867.jpg|2452726].

Page turning thrills and decently drawn characters (he's still not as good as King or McCammon) make the rollercoaster a fun ride. Throw in a little anti-war, anti-government trashing and you've got a pretty good entertainment here. Herbert also forgoes the salacious matters that caused the earlier novels to wander a little.

This Centipede Press edition follows the original 1985 US text while most versions still in print follow later revisions that, well, have more words, but aren't necessarily better. This goes for the current e-book and Audible editions. The edition itself is beautifully produced with nasty little illustrations here and there and a great dust jacket. ( )

Five nuclear bombs explode above. The mutant black rats swarm below. And the English people who survived the bombs, may have only done so to be meals for vermin!

Decent premise, but not the "Rats" sequel I wanted. This one is mostly about surviving the nuclear holocaust, with just a little bit of the rats thrown in at the end. I just wanted to read about the rats from the first two books. So I didn't really like this book. Boo. If you liked the first two books, like I did, skip this one. ( )

A post-nuclear London, plus flesh eating mutant rats. What's not to like!? ( )