King Rat

King Rat blends eerie fairy tale and contemporary urban fantasy in China Mieville´s fantastical debut. Something is stirring in London´s dark, stamping out its territory in brickdust and blood. Something has murdered Saul´s father, and left Saul to pay for the crime. But a shadow from the urban waste breaks into his prison cell and leads him to freedom. A shadow called King Rat. In the night-land behind London´s facade, in sewers and slums and rotting dead spaces, Saul must learn his true nature. Grotesque murders rock the city like a curse. Mysterious forces prepare for a showdown. With Drum and Bass pounding the backstreets, Saul confronts his bizarre inheritance - in the badlands of South London, in the heart of darkness, at the gathering of the Junglist Massive. Like the DJ says: ´Time for the Badman...´