Nigel Slater book but not the cook

[Danny McG]

There was a 3 part TV series in the early 1980s called The Mad Death - it was about a rabies outbreak in the UK.
It was based on a novel written by a Nigel Slater, but apparently not the food writer, somebody else with the same name.

My problem is that I'm trying to search for info about the rabies book (I remember being gripped by the TV series) but all searches lead me back to the celeb chef instead.

Has anyone got a link to anything about this other, non cooking, Nigel Slater?

 

[hitmouse]

The book is all yours on Amazon for £30 or ebay for £19.99 in a 1983 Granada paperback.
I had forgotten about that tv series. It was pretty gripping.

 

[Danny McG]

Cheers
I managed to find a little bit about it on Goodreads - it turns out he also wrote Tiger, I recall reading that one, it's about a Siberian tiger that escapes into the British countryside.
The big game hunting expert who's tracking it down soon realises that it's actually hunting him.

 

[Danny McG]

Annoyingly, when trying to find out about the horror author, there's a lot of errors online.
For example Imdb states that the food writer also wrote Mad Death but that's wrong.
Other sources have similar mistakes.
Also I keep getting led to some dude named "Danger Slater" who writes bizarre fiction, again not the same person

 

[Danny McG]

This looking for "books about rabies outbreaks in Britain" has led me to yet another very obscure writer - Jack Ramsey - again there appears to be two writers within the same name, a military writer and a horror writer.
The one about rabies is The Rage, written in the 1970s, someone smuggles a dog into England but it turns out to be rabid.
No more info.

I remember reading one that might have been that book, I don't remember any details but some guy gave himself away in a quiet little village because he ordered his dog to sit in French (couchet-couz or some phrase like that)

 

[Dave]

I remember that back in the '70's there was a great concern about Rabies getting into the UK (whether a valid concern or not.) It is often the case that real life scare stories result in a glut of fiction books on that subjects. I can't help you as I haven't read any, sorry.