King Rat

By China Miéville

Subjects: Rats, England, fiction, Fiction, general, London (england), fiction, Fiction, fantasy, general, Sewerage, Fiction, Pied Piper of Hamelin (Legendary character), Revenge, Young men

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.