Nicholas Dismas is a private investigator, but like no other that has gone before him. He carries a secret about him- self to which not even he has the answer. He is hired to find a missing baby, one that was taken away at birth. His investigation takes him to a mysteriously located place called Perfect Rest. It is supposed to be a nursing home for the elderly, but there is a lot more to the place than meets the eye. Here Dismas will discover the dark secret of the Others. And in an astonishing and spectacular finale, he will resolve the enigma of his own existence. As chilling, as memorable, and as timely as only James Herbert can be, Others will join the classics for which he is remembered with fear.