Trouble is, other than agreeing that it's all Russia's fault, we're still not quite sure what we're up against. He's not been the same man after witnessing that nasty incident. Carl Larson, Sweden's foremost geologist: Glen Kalmar, a Connecticut duck-fancier, and Judd Cass, the big movie producer, who was shooting his latest blockbuster in India when his child star dipped her foot in the water and. Other leading players on the team include Dr.

In true James Herbert annoying every-man action-hero style, Marshall is unanimously elected the only man who can save us and promoted to world-wide leader of Operation Chop (Co-ordination & Help to Overcome Pestilence), gaining a glamorous personal assistant, Lorna Leigh, in the process. What can it all mean? Garry reports his bizarre experience to an old pal at the Daily Monitor and, as reports of similar atrocities arrive from across the globe, is persuaded to return to the fold and head the Universal Media Alert Group (UMAG). As Marshall is busy removing a blockage from the pipes, something gently sucks two of his fingers clean off.

Garry Marshall, top Fleet Street journalist turned top advertising exec, is among the first known victims of the pestilence, when wife Verni insists he unblock the drains. It's the early 'eighties, A CERTAIN EVIL SOVIET SUPERPOWER have been up to their old nuclear-testing tricks to leave mankind once more facing death by doom, this time courtesy of a flesh-and-bone absorbing marine horror. The dialogue is rank, several chapters are unspeakably boring, the humans win, and there's only one measly bad sex interlude (albeit the greatest ever written).

J.'s other great contribution to horror lit, the equally ludicrous Pestilence. Maggots is so spectacularly, endearingly rubbish it's easy to overlook Mr. Until mankind is faced with final, total carnage. The voracious destroyer from which there is no escape.

The plague that grows – and grows – from an unknown source.Ī monster of writhing, insatiable blood-lust.

Pestilence by Edward Jarvis