Kelso is written as a very human and easy to identify with character. ‘The Jonah’ is a well paced novel that draws the reader into the developing storyline with the mysterious events that are occurring. As Kelso gets closer to the truth, a much more disturbing turn of events reveals itself. The plot thickens as Kelso discovers that there’s a lot more than just honest fishing work going on in this quiet location. Set in a quiet coastal town, Detective Jim Kelso (a typical Herbert style anti-hero) is placed on an assignment to discover the reason behind how a good honest local family came into contact with the drug LSD, that almost saw the death of them during some extreme and vivid hallucinations.
Moving slightly away from his previous splatterpunk and down right gritty horror subject matters, this well written and intriguing tale delivers a well balanced mixture between a thriller and a horror. His novels THE FOG, THE DARK, and THE SURVIVOR have been hailed as classics of the genre.įirst published back in 1981, ‘The Jonah’ was Herbert’s eighth novel to be published. His bestsellers, THE MAGIC COTTAGE, HAUNTED, SEPULCHRE, and CREED, enhanced his reputation as a writer of depth and originality. He relentlessly draws the reader through the story's ultimate revelation - one that will stay to chill the mind long after the book has been laid aside. With a skillful blend of horror and thriller fiction, he explored the shaded territories of evil, evoking a sense of brooding menace and rising tension. Widely imitated and hugely influential, his 19 novels have sold more than 42 million copies worldwide.Īs an author he produced some of the most powerful horror fiction of the past decade. He was one of our greatest popular novelists, whose books are sold in thirty-three other languages, including Russian and Chinese. James Herbert was Britain's number one bestselling writer (a position he held ever since publication of his first novel) and one of the world's top writers of thriller/horror fiction.
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