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'48 by James Herbert [Herbert, James] is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is '48 about?

From Kirkus ReviewsMad Max meets dystopian London bloodsuckers three years after the Allies lose WW II, in a what-if tale by the author of (among 18 others) the much richer, or at least completely different, Portent (1996). Hitler hits London with his V1 rockets but still finds himself losing the war. So he fires off V2 rockets, which hold a deadly virus that freezes human blood and causes fast death, although some rare victims die more slowly. Only that three percent of the population with AB negative blood survive the virus--so that gangs of slowly dying Blackshirts roam the city looking for AB-negs whose blood they hope to exchange for their own. One of those fighting the Blackshirts as they pursue him is Hoke, an American once with the RAF who now holes up in a vacated luxury hotel, the Savoy. Hoke has been cleaning the streets around the Savoy of dead bodies and hauling them to a stadium where he expects someday to have a mass cremation, his little gift to mankind. Meantime, he races about on his Matchless 350 motorcycle, locked into anger against the Germans because the virus killed his wife and child, while the Blackshirts are Nazi sympathizers sprung from England's worst pr

Who reads '48?

Author

James Herbert [Herbert, James]

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780061057816

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller

Rating

3.73 / 5 (88 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14