Witch Beast
Author: Bernard King
Cover Illustration: Alun Hood
 
Animal Horror!
 
Uptown, the depressed Victorian slum area of Monkhampton, long overdue for development, is dying: its shopping precinct boarded up, its church abandoned, its people moved away - apparently into thin air . . .
At the heart of Uptown, in Salvation, an affectionate, snow-white Newfoundland recovers slowly from the vicious maltreatment of his previous owner. And as Leader regains his strength, his coat starts to change colour and he grows - and grows . . .
Detective Chief Inspector Ben Wilson, investigating a strange case of arson in Uptown, is attacked by a pack of dogs turned feral. A pack that behaves like a disciplined army  . . .
Then the murders start. And Wilson begins to see a hideous connection; a link that shatters all our comfortable preconceptions about domestic pets. If he and the eccentric Professor Harker are right, man's best friend is man's most dangerous enemy - an enemy beyond human control.
 
SPHERE BOOKS 1996 EDITION
ISBN: 9780747402329