From the author of The Longsword Chronicles, The Shi'ell, and The Six Concentrics comes a comedy thriller... Ratcops!

Police Officers throughout the UK are intrigued by a memorandum issued by the Home Office asking for volunteers to undertake unspecified hazardous duties. Of the thousands who apply, only six are chosen.

But it's only when they've sold their souls to the devil and there's no turning back that they discover the real nature of the Special Duties Task Force which they now form: The underworld enemy that the SDTF is charged with eliminating is none other than Rattus Rattus Supremicus: Super Rat.

With secrecy an absolute necessity, the SDTF (affectionately dubbed "Ratcops" by their superiors) is ordered into the sewers to locate and destroy an enemy possessed of greater intelligence, skill, cunning, and common sense than the Officers themselves.

With the lives of every Londoner hanging in the balance, do the Ratcops possess sufficient intelligence, dedication and motivation to reveal and then put a stop to the Super Rats' devilish plot?

Probably not.