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Rent Hater
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Format: Quality Paperback, Unabridged-CD
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: Apr 2010
Genre: Fiction - Horror - General
Retail Price: $18.99
Pages: 288
Synopsis
Soon to be a major motion picture—produced by Guillermo del Toro and directed by J.A. Bayona
REMAIN CALM DO NOT PANIC TAKE SHELTER WAIT FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS THE SITUATION IS UNDER CONTROL Society is rocked by a sudden increase in the number of violent assaults on individuals. Christened 'Haters' by the media, the attackers strike without warning, killing all who cross their path. The assaults are brutal, remorseless and extreme: within seconds, normally rational, self-controlled people become frenzied, vicious killers. There are no apparent links as a hundred random attacks become a thousand, then hundreds of thousands. Everyone, irrespective of gender, age, race or any other difference, has the potential to become a victim - or a Hater. People are afraid to go to work, afraid to leave their homes and, increasingly, afraid that at any moment their friends, even their closest family, could turn on them with ultra violent intent. Waking up each morning, no matter how well defended, everyone must now consider the fact that by the end of the day, they might be dead. Or perhaps worse, become a killer themselves. As the status quo shifts, ATTACK FIRST, ASK QUESTIONS LATER becomes the order of the day... only, the answers might be much different than what you expect....
In the tradition of H. G. Wells and Richard Matheson, Hater is one man's story of his place in a world gone mad— a world infected with fear, violence, and HATE.
Reviews
The storys main character is your average joe. He works a job he hates, has a wife and three kids, lives in a flat too small for his family, and never seems to have enough money to make ends meet. On his way to work one day he sees a violent act against an elderly lady and as time goes on he sees more violent acts happen to other people. The people committing these acts are called Haters. No one knows what causes these episodes or why these people are driven to do what they do. All they know is that it is spreading all over the world and people are panicking. Who will be the next one to turn? How will you know? Everything seems to shut down and people lock themselves in their home. But what if you could see what the Haters see, feel what they feel, get to observe how they are treated by the nonhaters. Are they really the bad ones or are we?Beware though... this is supposed to be a trilogy and the first book leaves off as a to be continued. So if you get through 3/4 of this book and are enjoying it, I would recommend you run out and get the 2nd book in the series called Dog Blood.