![]() Immediately following the earthquake, a thick yellow cloud of fog begins to rise from the new crack in the earth. ![]() Herbert doesn’t waste any time with drawn-out character development. This is followed by some exciting disaster-movie sequences where Holman rescues a child before she plunges to her death into the earthly abyss. ![]() The rumbling opens a giant fissure in Main Street swallowing shops and several citizens along with it. While investigating misuse of defense department land, he stumbles upon Wiltshire as an earthquake strikes. Our hero is John Holman, a government environmental crimes investigator. The novel begins in the quiet English village of Wiltshire where nothing much ever seems to change. I’ve heard great things about Herbert and decided to start with his second book, 1975’s The Fog. Herbert’s first novel, 1974's The Rats, began a successful 23-novel career with worldwide sales exceeding 50 million copies. ![]() British author James Herbert (1953-2013) was the director of an advertising agency before striking it big as a horror author around the time Stephen King was doing the same thing accross the Atlantic. ![]()
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