King Rat
By: China Miéville.
Edition: 1st Trade paperback ed.
Publisher: Tom Doherty Associates
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: Pied Piper of Hamelin (Legendary character) -- Fiction; Young men -- Fiction; Revenge -- Fiction; Rats -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: A London man is enrolled by the King of Rats to assassinate the Pied Piper of Hamelin who dethroned him. The man is Saul, whose rat mother joined humanity, making him immune to the piper's call. In his rat persona Saul eats garbage and climbs walls.
Notes: "A Tor book."