Assassin: Underworld meets other world in this terrifying tale of supernatural horror

Arguably the most Hutsonish of the writer's many horror novels, this has the lot: florid prose; gratuitous sex; ultra-violence; a hard-bitten protagonist; and, a piledriver of a plot. I read this first back in '88, when it came out, and Shaun was at his peak, but it reads just as fluidly 34 years later.

Favourite book of his👍

A crime-thriller with murderous zombies? Or a zombie novel with gangsters? Hutson always delivers when it comes to gunfights. It's not just "pop, pop, dead".Uncomfortable reading, but perfect for the reader who spends much of his working life on buses.One minor niggle, at one point a character shoves someone into a Ford Capri through the rear door. I've never seen a Capri that wasn't a two door coupe.

Read this back in the day and have just re-read it. A masterclass in violence, action and horror. Hands down my favourite Hutson novel.

A bit slow to start but soon kicks into high gear and keeps going onto a cracker of a finish. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and would recommend it to ANY horror fan whether or not they have read Sean Hutson before, one small criticism (NOT, I hasten to add, the fault of Mr Hutson) is the spelling mistakes, there aren't many but it is annoying and this does not in ANY way ruin a VERY VERY good book. Read and enjoy.

This book rattles along at a fair pace. Never pauses for thought. Just hits you over and over. Plus Shaun knows a gross out moment when he pens one. His sex scenes are not very erotic though

Loved the story...editing left a little to be desired...but the slimy folks left me cold Bleurk x

kills the main protagonist, the bad guys, the assassin of the title. all killed by zombies ressurrected by the bone of a saint. Found that i kept asking myself why exactly would the bone of a saint raise the dead and why no-one in london seemed to notice them walking and driving around, can't help thinking that a walking talking decaying corpse would kind of smell especially after be released from its concrete coffin..... sorry shaun but not the best thought out story someone should have been left alive at the end of it all.