James Herbert - The Survivor

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Herbert, James - The Survivor UC FR
 
The Survivor
 
James Herbert
 
 
 
Contents
Prologue
 
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
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Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Epilogue

The Survivor James Herbert

NEW ENGLISH LIBRARY Hodder and Stoughton

THE SURVIVOR

David Keller is the survivor - the only person to escape from the flaming wreckage

of a 747 jumbo jet.

It was an accident whose aftermath leaves a lingering sense of evil and menace in

the quiet countryside. Later, strange events begin to occur: a schoolboy is found,

decapitated, on a railway track; a couple fall to their deaths from a bedroom

window - but it seems that the man has already been dead for some time.

David Keller sets about retracing the events on the crash - and uncovers the truth -

a truth almost too shocking to believe.

'Brisk and ingenious horror story about the nasty events that follow the

inexplicable crash of a jumbo jet near Eton.'

The Sunday Times

The tension builds and the story moves colourfully to a climax but keeps its secret

to the last.'

Manchester Evening News

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'James Herbert keeps finding new levels of horror. Not for the nervous.'

Liverpool Daily Post

'Compelling reading from start to finish.'

Bromley Times

'James Herbert's chilling story.'

Dorset Evening Echo

Also by James Herbert and available from New English Library:

The Rats

Lair

Domain

The Fog

Fluke

The Spear

The Dark

The Jonah

Shrine

Moon

The Magic Cottage

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Herbert, James - The Survivor UC FR

First published in Great Britain by New English Library in

An NEL Open Market Edition

First NEL Paperback Edition

Thirteenth impression 1987

ISBN 0-450-03241 -

The characters and situations in this book are entirely imaginary and bear no

relation to any real person or actual happening.

This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or

otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's

prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is

published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed

on the subsequent purchaser.

No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by

any means, electronically or mechanically, including photocopying, recording or

any information storage or retrieval system, without either the prior permission in

writing from the publisher or a licence, permitting restricted copying, issued by the

Printed and bound in Great Britain for Hodder and Stoughton Paperbacks, a

division of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., Mill Road, Dunton Green, Sevenoaks,

Kent. TN13 2YA. (Editorial Office: 47 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3DP) by

Richard Clay Ltd., Bungay, Suffolk.

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Prologue

The old man tightened his scarf and pulled the lapels of his heavy overcoat up

around his neck. The warm air from his lungs became visible as it emerged from

his mouth and was instantly chilled by the cold night air. For a few seconds, he

allowed his feet to beat a soft tattoo on the hard concrete surface of the iron

bridge, then stopped, settling his ageing frame more comfortably on the unyielding

bench. He looked up at the dark October sky, enjoying the feeling of smallness its

deepness gave him. There was a half moon, crisp and clear-edged, hanging flatly

and remotely, as though added as an afterthought and playing no important part in

the dark empyrean.

Sighing inwardly, he lowered his gaze to the river, black with sudden splashes of

reflected light constantly joining and parting in a dazzling display of effulgence.

He looked towards its banks: at the small boats and launches stirring smoothly in

its easy flow; at the bright shops and restaurants, and the public house at the end,

all night-lit clean, their middle greys of the day concealed in contrasts of

uncompromising light and dark.

Beautiful, he thought. Beautiful, this time of night, this time of year. The lateness

meant fewer people used the bridge as a thoroughfare; the coldness meant less

people would linger on its unshielded length. Most of the tourists had left Windsor

by now, their season having sighed to a halt. The day-trippers had scurried back

into their coaches and cars and departed with the short autumn dusk. Now there

would be fewer pilgrimages across the bridge from Windsor to see Eton, his town,

to visit the famous College with its Tudor schoolyard and beautiful fifteenth-

century chapel, to admire the eighteenth-century shop fronts and half-timbered

medieval buildings, to browse through the numerous antique shops crammed into

its narrow high street. He hadn't quite appreciated the beauty of his birthplace

himself until he'd read the official guide-book for Eton a few years before; it had

become lost to him through a lifetime of familiarity. But now that he'd had a few

years to pause, to look around him, to take stock of himself and his surroundings,

he'd taken a deeper interest in the history and the uniqueness of his native town.

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