Hater - David Moody

Society is rocked by a sudden increase in the number of violent assaults on individuals. The attackers, dubbed ‘Haters’ by the media, strike without warning; normally rational, self-controlled people are changing within seconds into maddened, vicious killers. There are no apparent links as a hundred random attacks become a thousand, and then thousands, right across the country. Everyone, irrespective of gender, age, race, religion or sexuality, has the potential to become a victim – or a Hater. People are afraid to go to work, afraid to leave their homes and, increasingly, afraid that at any moment their friends, even their closest family, could turn on them with murderous intent.